Brielle came downstairs asking why everyone had gone quiet. Callum could barely speak. The company named in the notice, A&E Property Holdings, owned the house, and the initials had a history he could no longer ignore. Adelaide and Edmund were his parents’ names, and A&E Outdoor Supply had been the family business he remembered from childhood. I finally told him the truth: the property had belonged to me for years, and I had deliberately kept my ownership private after watching how easily he dismissed the person who had supported him.

I explained that the sixty-day notice was real. I was selling the property, and Callum would have to find another home. I also made one thing clear: his children would not suffer because of our conflict. Their education had already been secured through trusts that he could not access, change, or drain. That money was theirs alone. I had protected their future because they had done nothing wrong, even while their father treated me as though I were simply another burden to relocate.