He Saved His Mistress. I Pulled His Funding

The story

Claire wakes from surgery and keeps her eyes shut. Her husband is telling the doctor why her parents had to die: they could identify his mistress as the driver. He thinks grief has left his wife helpless. She gives her team seven days to pull her family's money out of his company, then hands him papers he is too distracted to read. He is planning the biggest launch of his career. She is planning exactly when to stop paying for it.