I almost laughed.
A financial disagreement?
He had proposed exchanging spouses while concealing a transaction involving my inheritance and a loan against my home.
“Then why the partner swap?” I asked.
He looked away.
“Because we needed time.”
“Time for what?”
He said nothing.
Rachel opened her folder and removed a photocopy of an email.
“I can answer part of that. Before I left the company, I saw correspondence suggesting that the partner-swap arrangement was intended to create confusion if either marriage broke down. There was discussion of claiming that everyone had voluntarily agreed to the arrangement, then filing financial statements that would make the transactions appear to have been part of a joint business plan.”
Alex stared at Sean.
“You planned to use this against us?”
Sean’s face turned red.
“That is not what the email says.”
“Then read it,” I replied.
He didn’t.
Instead, he looked at me with an expression I had seen only a handful of times in our eighteen years together: pure resentment.
