an internal review of his employer’s finances, he had sought outside borrowing with my house as unauthorized collateral.
He hoped the borrowed money would conceal losses until he could flee.
My sale uncovered the forgery before the loan could close.
These details emerged gradually.
Through attorney correspondence.
Through official investigative updates.
Through records produced during our divorce proceedings.
No single afternoon resolved everything.
Justice proceeded slowly.
At times painfully so.
Still, it advanced.
Callie’s glamorous future had vanished.
She went back to her parents in Tennessee.
Her social accounts vanished.
