According to the draft, she was preparing to divorce him and claim half of everything he had told her he owned, including interests in Cedarline Capital, my company assets, and the River Oaks property.

She had hired investigators.

She had collected evidence.

She had met with Kessler not as a frightened wife, but as someone negotiating leverage.

And there, in black ink, was a clause that made my blood run cold.

Upon execution, Trevor Sutter agrees to assist in the petition for Gloria Sutter to be declared financially incompetent should such declaration be necessary to transfer disputed family-controlled assets.

I read it three times.