He suggested I leave my firm because childcare was expensive and his company was growing.

He insisted we combine accounts to simplify taxes.

He started reviewing grocery receipts after the business hit a bad quarter.

When I questioned an unfamiliar payment, he told me I was being suspicious.

When I insisted, he called me ungrateful.

The camera had captured the end of that progression.

But to understand why Noah recorded them, I needed to understand what Julian was trying to hide.

It began with a plain manila envelope delivered to our house eighteen months earlier, addressed not to Julian, but to me.