His face tightened.
“Yes.”
“Because you thought if you made me afraid, I would stop challenging you?”
Tears filled his eyes.
“Yes.”
No explanation would make it acceptable.
But truth mattered.
Then I placed Kristen's divorce-planning email on the table.
Trevor read.
His face went completely blank.
He read it again.
Then:
“No.”
I waited.
“She wouldn't.”
I said nothing.
He read the line:
Trevor is useful until Gloria is removed.
His hands began shaking.
“She told me…”
He stopped.
“What?”
“That we were building our life.”
I almost laughed at the symmetry.
“You were building your life out of mine.”
He looked up.
That landed.
“She was going to leave me.”
“Yes.”
“She used me.”
“Yes.”
Then came the question that told me he was not ready.
“Did you know?”
I stared.
“No.”
“Would you have told me?”
I almost couldn't believe it.
“Trevor.”
“What?”
“You assaulted me.”
“You tried to forge control of my company.”
