Paige pulled the pencil from behind her ear and tapped it against her notebook.

“He told the commercial building board last month that you two separated by mutual agreement,” Paige said.

Caroline took off her wool coat and hung it on the wooden wall peg.

When Grant had sat across from her at the lawyer’s table, he had talked about clean splits and moving on.

He had offered her fourteen thousand dollars while claiming he wanted what was fair for both of them.

Every calm explanation he gave in that room had been a calculated effort to cut her off before she could ask for support for their unborn children.