“I want to know the financial facts before I read Gregory’s explanation of them.”

“It might explain the facts.”

“It might explain how he wants me to feel about them.”

Patricia nodded slowly.

She had heard enough versions of our separation to know that I didn’t distrust him without reason.

She had also loved him long before she understood why I stopped being able to live with him.

Both were true, and neither made this an easy conversation.

“Could it be a good thing?” she asked.