REBORN BEFORE THE APOCALYPSE: MY EX-HUSBAND BEGGED TOO LATE
I let the sentence sit there exactly as sharp as I’d meant it.
“Are you planning something?” he asked, and I could hear the frustration building underneath the question, unfamiliar and uncertain in a way his voice had never sounded around me before.
I gave him nothing. “I’ll talk to you later, Adrian.”
I ended the call before he could push further, and sat for a moment in the quiet after, feeling the shape of a boundary I’d never once held in ten years of marriage.
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I went back to the encrypted files and laid everything I had side by side — the dormant account, Ashwell Logistics, the warehouse, the second property, the records Reyes had led me toward.