managed all evening.
“It means,” I said, “just wait until morning.”
What none of them remembered was that Eric had never contributed a dollar toward buying that house.
And what none of them knew was that six months earlier, after noticing something suspicious in our joint accounts, I had quietly transferred the property into a trust he could not touch. The deed, camera footage, and bank records were all waiting for exactly the mistake they had just made.
I didn’t go to a hotel.
I drove directly to the office
