She played the recording she had saved before Adrian could realize his mistake, and the audio lasted thirty seven minutes although only a few minutes truly mattered. Elliot listened without interrupting, then leaned back slowly after it ended.
“How much does he think you are worth,” he asked in a calm voice.
“The company buy in was eight hundred thousand dollars,” Avery answered steadily. “The house is in both names but I paid the four hundred thousand down payment, and my investments add roughly three hundred thousand more, so around one point five million total.”
“And he believes he gets half under state law, which is technically correct,” Elliot said while thinking through the implications.
“Except he does not know everything,” Avery replied as she reached for a folder hidden beneath a stack of unopened mail.
She opened it and revealed documents she had never shown Adrian, following advice her father once gave about never revealing every card in hand.