Chapter 2 - What He Never Read CarefullyThe house was mine. That was probably the most important fact Julian had forgotten.
Before our wedding, I'd hired my own attorney. We signed a prenuptial agreement. Julian knew about it — he just never studied the details, assuming it was a formality. It wasn't. The agreement made several things very clear: the house was mine, my personal accounts were mine, and any debts created individually stayed with the person who created them. In the event of divorce, those distinctions would remain intact.
Then there was the $150,000.
Julian believed I had taken the money directly from my personal savings. I hadn't. The creditor absolutely received the full payment — at 9:02 that Thursday morning, $150,000 was transferred, and Julian received confirmation his debt was satisfied. But the money came from Meridian Consulting LLC, a company I'd established several months earlier. And Meridian's payment wasn't structured as a gift from me to my husband.
It was a business loan.
Everything had been created legally and reviewed by attorneys. I'd spent four months consulting both a family-law attorney and a financial attorney. Nothing was improvised. Nothing depended on a clever loophole. Everything was documented.
After the payment went through, I called my attorney, Priscilla Vaughn.
"It's done," I said.
A pause. "Then it's time."
May you like
"Yes."
I went home. That night, I slept better than I had in months.
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