At 3:17 a.m., I Thanked My Husband’s Mistress on Company Slack—Then a 2:41 Login Led to My Inheritance

“Not outside the arrangements.”

“Good.”

“Do you think that’s too cold?”

She looked at me over her cup.

“I think you’ve spent enough time trying to make boundaries sound warm enough that nobody objects.”

I smiled.

It was not advice I would put in a board memorandum.

It was exactly what I needed from my mother.