Chapter 1 - The Shadows in the Office
The thick leather folder hit my desk with a heavy, intimidating thud.
My accountant, Mark, wiped a cold bead of sweat from his pale forehead.
He had never asked me to meet him at my restaurant after midnight before.
I sat down in my leather chair, still processing the sickening image of my husband kissing my sister.
Mark opened the folder and pointed a trembling finger at the top financial document.
He told me that Gavin had not just been sleeping with Brooke behind my back.
Gavin had secretly forged my signature to take out a massive secondary mortgage on our home and my business.
The silver Volvo I had seen parked in my driveway belonged to a ruthless bankruptcy liquidator.
Gavin and Brooke were planning to force my beloved restaurant into foreclosure and buy it for pennies through a shell company.
They had deliberately structured the toxic debt so that I would be held personally liable for millions of dollars.
I stared at the forged financial statements, feeling a cold wave of absolute clarity wash over my body.
They did not just want to start a beautiful new family together.
They wanted to completely destroy my life and build their luxurious future on my ashes.
Mark nervously tapped his expensive pen against the edge of the mahogany desk.
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He whispered that the aggressive foreclosure was not scheduled for sometime next month.
The bank was coming to seize the restaurant tomorrow morning at exactly eight o'clock.
