Now I Watch Her Love Him novel · Chapter 17 of 24
Chapter 17: Everything
The mediator's conference room had a long table, a box of tissues and a window onto a parking structure.
Hannah sat on one side of it with her lawyer, a gray-haired woman in a plain blue suit.
I sat on the other side with my father's lawyer, who had driven in from Columbus and billed me before I sat down.
It was the second week of January, and it was day fifty-one.
The mediator read Hannah's list aloud.
It was short.
She asked for her own savings account, her car, her drawing equipment and the contents of the studio.
She asked for half of what we had saved in eight years, and for nothing from the dealership.
My lawyer cleared his throat.
"Mr. Thorsby is prepared to counter," he said. "Given the marital property and the family business, we believe a reasonable..."
"No," I said.
He turned.
"Dylan, let me do this."
"I'm not countering," I said. "She gets the house."
My lawyer put his pen down very slowly.
"She gets all of the savings, not half," I said. "She gets my retirement account. She takes whichever car she wants, and I'll buy the other one back from her if she doesn't."
"Dylan," he said, in a low voice, "I have to advise you that this is not..."
"You've advised me. It's on the record that you advised me."
Across the table, Hannah's lawyer had stopped writing.
She looked at the mediator, and then at Hannah, and she was plainly waiting for someone to tell her what trap this was.
"Mr. Thorsby," the mediator said, "you understand that you would be left with very little."
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