After signing the divorce papers, my mother-in-law gave me 24 hours to leave. I opened the safe, grabbed documents, and called a luxury car. She sneered, “Trying to show off now?” I smiled. “Tomorrow, you’ll understand exactly why.”

And please don’t come asking Julian for money when reality catches up with you.”

I ignored her.

Instead, I looked at Julian.

He sat forward in his chair, staring at the marble floor.

He was wearing the slate-gray shirt I had chosen for our fourth anniversary.

“Do you really have nothing to say?” I asked.

Julian tightened his jaw.

“Leah, Mom is just establishing boundaries.”

He finally looked at me.

“Let’s not make this harder than it already is.”

Boundaries.

His mother was ordering me out of the home I