He pointed at me.
“This whole thing is because of him. Claire told me he controlled all the money.”
I looked at Claire.
“Did you?”
She whispered, “You did.”
“I paid everything.”
“You made me ask you before big purchases.”
“Because you once bought a nineteen-thousand-dollar car without telling me.”
“I was miserable!”
There it
was again.
The doctrine of feeling.
If Claire felt trapped, then any action became justified.
Rebecca handed another packet to me.
“There’s one more issue.”
I almost didn’t want it.
“What?”
“The home equity loan.”
“I thought the house couldn’t be borrowed against.”
“It can’t.”
“Then how—”
“It wasn’t borrowed against your house.”
Everyone went still.
Rebecca looked toward Derek.
“It was borrowed against this gym.”
Derek’s mouth fell open.
“What?”
“The loan documents use Apex Predator’s property interest as collateral.”
