For the last two years of his life, every few weeks.

He sent the children things at Christmas and on their birthdays, small things, nothing that would draw attention.

He set up trusts for their education in his own name, separate from the company, separate from you, where no one could ever touch them or use them against me.” Rhett’s face was doing something I had never seen it do.

“He asked me to keep it quiet until he was gone,” I said.

“He said — and I’m telling you his words, Rhett, not mine — that he wanted you to have to face it when you had no one left to hide behind.