The Addendum
The addendum was eight pages.
Daniel’s lawyer’s name was Carrie Walsh, and I had watched her work throughout the mediation with the brisk efficiency of someone who had seen a great many divorces and who had assessed mine, correctly, as an easy win for her client. She had barely looked at me during the proceedings. I was the wife who was giving up everything voluntarily. I was not her problem.
She was reading the addendum now with a different expression.
Let me tell you what the addendum contained, because it is the whole story, and the whole story is not about revenge. I want to be clear about this. What I did was not about punishing Daniel. It was about understanding, very clearly, what was actually mine and what was not, and making sure that the legal record reflected the accurate reality rather than the version Daniel had assumed was true.
The addendum was prepared by Margaret Collins over the three weeks between my instruction to give him everything and the final hearing.
Margaret had called me the day after I gave her the instruction.
She had said: “Emma, I need you to sit with me and explain the reasoning. Not for professional reasons. I’m asking as someone who doesn’t understand.”
I had said: “Come to the office.”
My office. Not the house.
Margaret arrived at ten in the morning and I closed the door and I explained.
The house: Daniel wanted the house. He had said it was his, that he had found it, that he had chosen it, that the design of it reflected his taste. He was not entirely wrong. He had found the listing. He had chosen the neighborhood. The skylight was his idea.
What happened next changed everything… FULL STORY on the next page.
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