It was in both our names, but the mortgage had been almost entirely repaid thanks to an inheritance my grandmother had left me years before.
The money that Daniel had suggested "investing in our future".
Our future.
I consulted my lawyer.
"You have more rights than you think," he told me.
And for the first time in a long time, I felt like I wasn't losing everything.
Daniel tried to negotiate.
He tried to shift the blame onto others.
He tried to soften the blow.
But I no longer had control over my perception.
What I had seen could not be reinterpreted.
The divorce was finalized six months later.
Daniel has started an official relationship with Clara.
It didn't last.
Apparently, the thrill of the forbidden faded when the forbidden ceased to be forbidden.
One year after that morning, Ethan and I were back in the car.
