Then she looked toward the ceiling.

“I did,” she said quietly. “You just never went upstairs.”

Daniel filed for divorce the following month. He approached the end of their marriage the way he approached a corporate acquisition. He made lists. He classified assets.

He assigned values. The brownstone was worth $11.4 million. The investment accounts, $6.8 million. The cars, retirement funds, furniture, wine collection, and the vacation property in Vermont were all carefully appraised.

The paintings were not. Daniel told his legal team Evelyn could keep every canvas.

“All of them?” one associate asked.