Chapter 19 - Clarissa offers Dorian a choice
Discovery later produced a message sent two days after Maeve’s birth.
Clarissa:
If you settle for supervised visits, don’t expect me to keep subsidizing your life.
Dorian:
I’m following my lawyer’s advice.
Clarissa:
I told you what happens if Morwenna controls this child.
Dorian:
She’s not a possession.
That was the first message in months where he sounded like the man I married.
Clarissa:
Then stop acting surprised when there are consequences.
What consequences?
She canceled:
A $7,000 monthly distribution she had been voluntarily paying Dorian from a family investment account.
Legal.
It was her money.
She also removed him from a paid advisory role in her company.
That role paid:
$110,000 annually.
Could she do that?
The operating agreement allowed removal.
No lifetime entitlement.
Dorian suddenly had to live on his actual salary.
He sold his luxury car.
Moved into a two-bedroom rental.
For the first time, Clarissa’s inheritance threat became real in his daily life.
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And something unexpected happened.
He stopped defending her.
