can’t just throw my company out.”
Eleanor remained calm.
“She is not throwing anyone out. She is declining to subsidize the business after divorce.”
Then we moved to the rental houses.
Then the inheritance accounts.
Then the retirement funds.
Then thirty years of financial records, organized so precisely that Daniel’s attorney eventually stopped interrupting.
Daniel slowly began to understand that I hadn’t come there to punish him.
I had come prepared.
That realization frightened him more.
Eventually, he looked directly at me.
“Why didn’t you tell me you were this
