I pulled them apart and smoothed them flat on the wood.

The property division section was right in the middle.

It laid out a clean split of the liquid assets.

It gave the exact routing numbers for the joint checking accounts we’d closed back in January.

A smaller sheet slid out of the back of the stack and landed on the rug.

I bent and picked it up.

It was a quitclaim deed, separate from the rest.

It was on the same thick parchment as the legal divorce papers.