I came from money myself, a trust fund from my late grandparents, managed carefully through legal safeguards that even Charles didn’t fully understand. When we married, he insisted on merging our finances “for transparency.” I agreed to most of it, but not all. What he didn’t know was that the trust had a secondary branch account, something only I could access, hidden behind a series of private business holdings.
It wasn’t illegal; it was just… discreet. I began transferring small amounts from our joint ventures into that account years ago. A few thousand here, a few thousand there.
