Chapter 11 - I FILED FOR SEPARATIONI loved Daniel.
I still filed.
Not immediately for divorce.
Legal separation.
Separate finances.
No access to my property.
Northshore voting authority moved temporarily to independent fiduciaries while fraud questions were reviewed.
Daniel did the same with his Mercer block.
For the first time in decades, neither half was under Hartwell family influence.
Margaret called me.
I answered once.
“You’re destroying Daniel.”
“No.”
“He has lost everything.”
“He has hundreds of millions in beneficial assets.”
“You know what I mean.”
Yes.
Control.
Status.
Certainty.
The things people call everything when they have never been asked to live without them.
Then she said:
“You used him.”
I almost laughed.
“Margaret.”
Silence.
May you like
“You researched me for years.”
She hung up.
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Chapter 13 - MARGARET FINALLY TOLD DANIEL THE ONE THING HE NEEDEDDaniel met Margaret with a therapist present.
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