He Kept Me on a $1,800 Allowance and Called Me a Kept Housewife. He Never Checked Who Held the Deciding Vote on the Company He Was Trying to Buy

“Simone.

Are we pulling out of the merger?”

I looked down at the receipt on the floor beside me — a hundred and ten thousand dollars, itemized, which I had pulled from Barrett’s own corporate expense records an hour earlier.

“No,” I said softly.

“We are going to let him stand up in front of his board tomorrow morning and present the whole acquisition as the triumph of his career.

And then I am going to walk into that boardroom, and I am going to vote it down.”