Meredith Ashworth: Controlling Shareholder, 52% Voting Equity.

“Yes, Ivan,” I said.

“I know exactly what’s happening.”

“What did you do?”

“Nothing,” I said, “that the legal owner of the fortune you’ve spent years bragging you built isn’t completely entitled to do.”

There was a silence on his end so total I could hear the office behind him, the ordinary sounds of a business that had just realized it was standing on someone else’s ground.

He had spent our whole marriage certain he’d married a woman with nothing.