transition.”
For the first time since seeing him, I smiled.
Daniel noticed immediately.
“What?”
“Nothing.”
Then I walked away.
He thought the house was the most important asset connected to me.
He was wrong.
And he had no idea that for the previous eighteen months, I had quietly controlled the company keeping his precious research alive.
Daniel arrived at my house the next morning.
Vanessa was with him.
So were two suitcases.
I stared at them from the doorway.
“You actually brought her here?”
Vanessa folded her arms.
“Daniel said half the property belongs to him.”
Daniel walked inside without waiting for an invitation.
“I want us to handle this like adults.”
I shut the door behind him.
“Like adults?”
“We both benefited from my career, Emily.”
That nearly made me laugh.
Daniel had always been an excellent scientist.
Brilliant, ambitious, disciplined in the laboratory.
Financially?
A disaster.
I was
