Chapter 2 - Melissa Calls About Tyler’s Tuition
Melissa called at 8:07 Monday morning.
She did not ask about the baby.
“Tyler’s tuition payment failed.”
I sat at the kitchen table in the furnished apartment I had rented for a month.
“That’s correct.”
“What do you mean, that’s correct?”
“I stopped paying it.”
Silence.
Then:
“You can’t do that in the middle of the school year.”
“I already did.”
Melissa’s voice sharpened.
“Grant said tuition was covered through June.”
That sentence interested me.
“Grant said he was paying it?”
Another pause.
“Well… he said it was handled.”
I opened my old payment records.
For three years, every tuition transfer had come directly from my premarital savings account.
Grant had never contributed.
Melissa apparently did not know that.
Neither did Diane.
Grant had let his family believe he was the provider while I quietly funded the system.
Then Melissa said something stranger.
“Grant told me not to worry because after the divorce nothing would really change financially.”
I stopped breathing for a second.
“After the divorce?”
“He said you two were separating finances, not abandoning family responsibilities.”
Family responsibilities.
Mine, apparently.
I asked when Grant told her this.
“Last week.”
Before the dinner.
Before the ultrasound.
Before he supposedly raised divorce spontaneously.
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Grant had already discussed our divorce with his sister.
And he had promised her my money would continue after I was gone.
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