This morning, when I told my husband I wouldn’t hand over the money for my mother-in-law’s tour of Europe, he completely lost his temper.

us. I bought the property outright through a holding company created before our marriage, using inheritance money my grandmother had left solely to me.

Daniel had signed every document.

He just never bothered reading them.

By midnight, I was sitting in my lawyer’s office with photographs from urgent care documenting the burn, seven years of bank records, and the blue folder open between us.

My attorney, Mara, read the first page and gave a humorless smile.

“He really told you to get out?”

“Yes.”

She tapped the deed.

“Then tomorrow