“How many days a week will you be traveling?”

“Probably three days a week starting in September,” he said.

That travel schedule would give him perfect cover to spend days at the new house in Golden without me knowing.

“The retainer fee hits my business account next week,” he said.

“I’ll put the twelve thousand five hundred dollars back into our joint checking before the end of the month.”

I touched the thin silver bracelet on my left wrist.