“I can get half by Friday.”
“You can get all of it by Friday, or you can explain to your wife why her watch stays where I put it until you do.”
He turned then. “You put it in the freezer?”
Eleanor almost smiled. Almost. “You always could smell a secret in this kitchen.”
“That’s insane.”
“What’s insane,” Eleanor said, “is thinking I would keep funding a marriage that treats my life like a prop.”
Harrison stood. He paced three steps toward the pool and three steps back. “We’re not— It’s not like that. Sloan’s under pressure at work. The clients are young. She feels like she has to look a certain way.”