Chapter 14

Two days after the appointment, a lawyer’s envelope arrived at Odette’s inn. My name was printed across the front in precise black letters. Inside were forty-three pages of financial agreements. The first page listed every deposit lost when I canceled the wedding. Venue. Catering. Flowers. Photography. Rhys had transferred the full amount into an independent account managed by both our lawyers. Not half. All of it. A second document calculated my share of the New York apartment....