I married my high school sweetheart after 15 years together — on our first anniversary, I heard him say, “She still has no idea what I’ve been planning.”

Once she signs, we’re done waiting.”

For a few seconds, I couldn’t understand what I was hearing.

Then every strange moment from the last fifteen years seemed to come back at once.

The private calls.

The locked drawer.

His questions about my mother’s house.

His sudden interest in property records after we got engaged.

The forms he’d recently asked me to continue reading …