That’s extremely inconvenient.
And his mother smiled.
She said: don’t make yourself the victim, Alethea. Men like my son don’t stay tied to women who fall pregnant to get their hands on the money.
I laughed. I actually laughed, out loud, at that table, because it was too cruel to cry at and my body did not know what else to do with it.
I said: I never cared about your money.
And Philippa leaned in, close enough that I could smell her perfume, and said:
No. You just got very comfortable spending it.
Inside a week, he had frozen our joint account and cancelled my health cover.
And he had told everybody we knew that I had been unfaithful.
I found that out from a woman I used to have lunch with, who rang me on the Thursday to say she was sorry things had gone the way they had and that she hoped I was getting help.
