“What happens if he finds out about the winning numbers before we file?” I asked.

“He’ll demand fifty percent of seventy-three million dollars, and a judge might give it to him,” Rachel said.

She tapped a red pen on her desk calendar, pointing right at today’s date.

“Under state disclosure rules, hiding assets during an active divorce can lead to losing them completely,” Rachel said.

“We have to establish a clean legal separation date first and use verified separate funds to document the purchase.”

“I used a two-dollar bill my mother gave me on Tuesday,” I said.