My husband canceled our anniversary dinner because his ex “needed him.” When I asked for boundaries, he laughed and called me jealous. I said, “Okay,” accepted an out-of-state job, packed, and watched his secret unravel.

face tightened.

I placed a folder on the entry table.

Anniversaries

Inside were divorce papers.

Copies of the financial transfers.

My signed employment agreement in Denver.

And the preliminary financial report my attorney had prepared.

Daniel flipped through everything.

Then he reached the job contract.

“You accepted a position in Colorado?”

“I start in three weeks.”

“You didn’t even discuss that with me!”

I almost laughed.

“That’s interesting coming from the man who secretly used my assets to support a quarter-million-dollar loan.”

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“It wasn’t supposed to fail.”

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