Richard was 73.
Wealthy. Widowed. Powerful.
The kind of man who lived behind iron gates, wore watches worth more than my yearly salary, and never had to ask what anything cost.
Three months after we met, he proposed.
His children hated me immediately.
At our wedding, his daughter Rebecca leaned close and whispered:
“You really think you’re getting this house when he dies? You’ll walk away with nothing.”