What could he realistically pay?

And what did he want our relationship to be if I stopped funding his life?

He arrived twelve minutes late, wearing a winter coat I had helped him purchase two years earlier.

He kissed the air near my cheek and sat down before asking how I was.

His first words concerned the mortgage.

I let him speak.

According to Daniel, the household had been carefully budgeted around my contributions.

Without them, expenses would exceed income, and Claire was furious that I had changed things without warning.