Chapter 5: Ownership
The second day delivered the clearer picture.
Sophia’s office transmitted the formal disclosure package required by the divorce and the corporate actions: the investment entity’s sixty-two percent ownership of the construction company, the title records showing the mansion held by the same entity, the lease structures on the vehicles, and the trust’s independent management that had never required Dominic’s signature. The documents were precise and previously invisible to him because he had never asked the right questions.
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Victoria’s confidence fractured in stages. First the accounts. Then the property. Then the realization that the lifestyle she had used to measure my worth had been underwritten, quietly, by the daughter-in-law she pushed down the stairs. Dominic’s attorneys requested emergency clarification and temporary relief. Sophia answered with the operating agreements and the freeze authorizations already in force. Relief was not granted.
I stayed offline and out of reach. The miscarriage and the infertility result were no longer information I needed to manage for him. They were simply facts that had arrived on the same night as my departure. He could sit with both without my assistance.
