When the call ended, she snapped out of her daze and instinctively backed away from the door, hiding around the corner.
Moments later, Boris stepped out. He didn’t see her as he walked down the hall. Once he passed, Anna quietly slipped away. She needed time. And answers.
Still shaken, Anna opened her banking app on the way home. The joint account balance had dropped. He really was taking money.
“Well,” she whispered, “if he wants a game, he’s got one.”
Back home, Boris was as impatient as ever.
“Where have you been?” he snapped. “I’ve been starving all day!”
Anna said nothing. She kept calm. She needed to learn more before acting.
The next day, she called in sick and began her own quiet investigation. She combed through Boris’s documents and checked his computer.
What she found confirmed her worst fears—messages between him and a lawyer, discussing divorce and how to split their assets.
