"Lowell Dickerson, I was in a meeting with a client just now. What was that screenshot you sent me supposed to mean?"
"You should know exactly what it means," I said evenly.
Anger crept into her voice on the other end.
"Lowell! You can't seriously think I'm cheating? People go on business trips every month. How can you be sure I'm the one who bought them?"
"Eve," I said calmly, "you seem to have forgotten. When you arranged my position here, you also gave me one specific task: compiling the monthly log of all employees on business travel."
"And last December, you were the only one who traveled. Oh, right. Your assistant too."
Silence on the other end.
Then her tone softened a few degrees.
"Is... is that so? Well, maybe I did buy them. Must've accidentally charged them to the company account."
"Since you've brought it to my attention, let's follow our fifty-fifty agreement. Go ahead and transfer me your half."
I let out a cold laugh.
Eve Pruitt was known as a powerhouse businesswoman. From the very start of our marriage, she'd insisted on a fifty-fifty agreement under the guise of "motivating me to be more ambitious." Everything was split down the middle, from major appliances to a single plastic bag.
And yet for something as sensitive as condoms, she hadn't asked me to split the cost.
That alone said everything.
On top of that, ever since Eve came back from that trip, we hadn't been intimate once.
She'd had her fun with someone else, and now she wanted me to foot half the bill.
The sheer audacity.
"Whoever you used them with," I said coolly, "take it up with him."
I didn't bother with another word and hung up.
But just before the call disconnected, I heard Gabriel's voice in the background.
"Come on, babe. What's his problem? He's only eating because of you. Without you, he's nothing."
I laughed coldly to myself.
None of them knew that this company was just a subsidiary under my group.
So who was really supporting whom here?
Long before I married Eve, I'd already built my own business empire. Back then, I'd wanted to inspect the subsidiary's operations firsthand, so I entered the newly established branch under the guise of a low-level employee. It was at a meeting there that I first met Eve.