“Alder’s marital property.

We bought it in year seven.”

“We bought it with my bonus.”

“With a down payment out of the joint account, which was funded by both incomes, and a loan we both signed, and eleven months of rent that I collected.”

And then he said it.

He said the sentence I had known was coming since the walkway, in the exact words I had predicted at eleven-thirty the night before, which is why I had spent three hours building a document instead of sleeping.

“You can’t take what I earned, Jessi.