“when we arranged this meeting today, I had a plan in mind, things that I wanted to say, but never seemed to find the courage to say them, I even wr...ote my thoughts down” I pulled a few sheets of folded paper from my inside pocket and dropped them on the table.“your speech at the pub made my mind up for me.” Tracy looked at the sheets of paper, then back to me.“and?”“I left my wife two weeks ago” Tracy made to say something but I stopped her. She sat back and crossed her arms over her chest.“I. It is only two more years – nineteen months actually – and we have already waited six years so what's two more?" We've been lucky and I'm just afraid that our luck won't hold. I want to end things on my terms and not Frank's." So cross your fingers and hope that Frank's dad kicks off or retires in the next couple of months. The pre-nup keeps you from getting any part of the company, but once Frank takes control of the company his net worth goes up and your half of the assets could double." I. How could I have begged for this moments ago? Did it always hurt like this? I try to swallow the scream, to form words like please, fuck, or stop but there is too much chaos in the pain and my words spill out in pitiful whimpers. “Shh sweetie,” I hear your disembodied voice comforting from somewhere outside the pain. “This is what you asked for. You know your words.” The tone in your voice is one that reminds me to be brave, if you were worried I couldn’t take it you would ask me what my words. ”She turned towards me, apparently satisfied with her appearance.“Was the baby planned?” I asked.Emily gave me a strange look.“Everything I say is confidential, right?”“Of course.”“Even from Dad?” she insisted.“If that’s what you want,” I assured her.She thought for a moment as if making up her mind then took a deep breath.“Well, the truth is, the baby wasn’t an accident, but Dad doesn’t know that. He thinks something went wrong with my birth-control pills. The truth is I came off them on.