The Light I Turned On
Divorce at your age — the market is brutal.
Warner is a titan.
Half the women in this city would take him.
Don’t gamble your security over a wounded ego.” I laughed, genuinely.
“Adelina, your tactics haven’t evolved a day.
You still think that without a man on my arm my value collapses.” I reached into my briefcase and slid a thick dossier across the table — deeds, the joint ledgers, the promissory notes for my startup loans, my equity, and the itemized cash Warner had moved to fund the affair.