“I appreciate the offer, Douglas, but I must politely decline,” I said.

Douglas stared at me for three long seconds.

He pressed a button on his key fob, and the sedan doors unlocked with a loud electronic beep.

“We’ll see how things look after the wedding,” Douglas said.

He got into his car and shut the door without rolling down the window.

I drove straight back across town to my office at Abernathy Capital.

The main trading floor was completely empty when I walked to my corner suite.