future payments, executive earnings, and properties. My independent attorney protected my premarital holdings, and I waived claims against the Prescott estate. The proceedings were courteous and clinical. Once their side understood my assets would remain separate, nobody bothered to ask what those assets contained. Aaron signed, and we married. He preferred paying household expenses, and I had seen no reason to argue about restaurant bills or the mortgage. I hadn’t been financially dependent; convenience had simply allowed him to imagine that I was.
Two days later, a gossip website displayed
