Chapter 9
“Then why hide the equity?” I yelled, slamming my fist onto the desk.
“Why let me believe I was the sole owner of this company?”
“Because I knew your ego, Daniel,” Claire replied, looking up to lock her clear blue eyes onto mine.
“If you knew the money was mine, you would have felt diminished.”
“You would have felt like a junior partner in your own life, and I wanted you to feel strong.”
“So I stayed in the background, taught my high school art classes, and let you take all the credit.”
She leaned back in the chair that I had sat in for ten years.
“I kept that agreement hidden because I thought we were building a forever together,” she continued.
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“I thought the equity was just our family’s safety net.”
“Until eighteen months ago, when you started staying late for 'marketing consultations' with Tessa Vance.”
