Claire immediately arranged for the proper legal steps to be taken.
I watched from the window as Brandon stood beside his truck, looking smaller than I remembered.
For seven years, I had been afraid of losing him.
Now I realized something astonishing.
I had already lost him long before that night.
I just hadn’t known it.
The man I loved would never have raised his hand against my mother.
The man I trusted would never have stolen from our future.
The marriage I thought I was fighting to save had been gone for a long time.
I was simply the last person to discover it.
The legal process was exhausting.
There were meetings.
DocumenTS.
Account records.
Questions I never imagined I would have to answer about my own husband.
But slowly, the truth became impossible to hide.
The property Lucas bought with the money was eventually sold.
Some of the remaining funds were recovered through settlements and agreemenTS.
