Hale, your husband works in corporate finance, doesn’t he?”

“Yes.”

“Our financial investigators pulled his accounts this morning, with the court’s permission.

In the past eleven months, he’s received twenty-two payments from a company connected to the clinic, totaling about three hundred thousand dollars.

The memo lines say consulting.”

I almost laughed.

For a year Carter had been telling me we couldn’t afford a new roof, and he’d gone on about being careful with money.

All that time he’d been paid to deliver our daughter.