Lying Flat, Winning Big

Synopsis

I'm incredibly lazy. My husband Franklin has been keeping a mistress, and I know about it. But I can't be bothered to deal with it. For ten years, the two of them have been lovey-dovey while I've been lying flat at home doing absolutely nothing. The amazing thing is, these two are incredibly capable. They actually took my failing little company and made it go public. I was planning to keep being lazy, but today they came to talk to me. Franklin slid a divorce agreement across the table. "I'll give you ten million. Let's get divorced." I looked at the company now worth over a hundred million and laughed. "I may be lazy, but I'm not stupid." The air conditioning in the café was blasting. Sitting across from me were Franklin and his mistress of ten years, Lisa. The two sat intimately close, wearing perfectly tailored designer clothes with matching couple's watches on their wrists. Meanwhile, I wore a loose cotton dress and flat shoes, looking like a housewife who had wandered into a high-level business negotiation by mistake. Franklin pushed a document toward me. Next to it lay a check for ten million dollars. "Ivanka, let's talk." Franklin's voice was calm, carrying that particular condescension of someone in power. "These past ten years, you haven't managed anything. The company's success today is entirely due to the hard work Lisa and I put in." He paused, as if giving me time to process this. "There's been no love between us for a long time. Dragging this out benefits no one." Lisa chimed in at