A True Protector
Because it did not fit.
It could not be made to fit.
Every framework I had for understanding what Gabriel had done, the mercenary framework, the substitute-for-me framework, all the ugly little theories my jealousy had manufactured over the years, shattered against the simple fact of that trust account.
A man does not take a fortune to marry a woman and then quietly, without telling anyone, without taking credit, place every single dollar of it into her own name for her own future.
That is not what greed does.