I’m so sorry.”

“I didn’t leave because of the money,” I said, calmly.

“I want you to understand that, because it’s the only thing here that matters.

I left because a marriage cannot survive when one person builds a life and the other simply drains it.

The money was only ever the evidence.

The betrayal was the disappearance — the way you stopped being able to see me at all.

Keep the check.