He was surprised to see how many expenses she’d covered.

Mortgage, condo assessments, utilities, insurance, groceries, emergency repairs, even the monthly installment on his sedan: nearly all of it came from her income or the savings she’d accumulated long before their marriage.

He had often boasted that he provided the home.

The records told a different story.

His name appeared on the apartment’s building access list because he lived there, not on the original deed as a purchaser.

Iris’s premarital ownership did not eliminate every legal question that might arise in a divorce, but it destroyed his favorite claim that the home was something he’d bought and could take away from her with a sentence.