The Four-Million-Dollar Transition

I was helping my husband pay off his credit card, and when I logged into his banking app, I discovered something—the balance on his payroll account was over four million dollars.

I looked at it three times.

Four million, one hundred and seventy thousand.

We had been married for three years, and he told me his monthly salary was five thousand.

We split the bill for every meal, dividing every expense clearly.

I couldn't even bring myself to buy a $399 coat.

I stared at that string of numbers, my fingers turning cold.

Arthur, who exactly are you?