“Because we were trying to protect you from making financial mistakes.

You’re good with clients, Hannah, but you don’t understand how to build something substantial.”

I felt something inside me go very still.

For years, he had praised my ambition in public while calling it a minor hobby in private.

Now he was explaining why he deserved ownership of the firm I had built before our marriage.

“You wanted my company,” I said clearly.

“We wanted to help it grow,” he argued.