“I was securing a sixty-thousand-dollar credit line.”

“Where did the sixty thousand dollars come from?” she asked.

Grant pulled his hand back from the mug and took a step away from the table.

“That’s commercial business,” he said.

“It doesn’t concern the household budget.”

“My labor helped build the equity in the Elmwood property,” Caroline said.

Grant let out a short, quiet laugh and picked up his newspaper from the counter.

“You wiped down framing timber and painted trim,” Grant said.