Chapter 6 - THE TRUTH COMES OUT
Over the next few weeks, the full picture emerged. They’d been planning this for more than a year. Brenda had pushed Connor to marry me because she knew I owned the house outright—valuable real estate in a fast-growing area. They’d slowly taken control of finances, cut me off from information, and waited until Apex was in trouble to make their move.
They’d done their research, too—found out I worked from home, didn’t talk much about money, figured I’d never notice until it was too late. They’d never bothered to ask what my father had done for a living.
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I sat down with the investors one by one, walked them through every transaction, showed them exactly where their money had gone. Most of it was recovered within a month. They thanked me, told me I’d saved them from ruin, offered to pay me for my work.
I turned them down. “I did what anyone should have done,” I said. “You trust people with your life savings—they shouldn’t be able to take advantage of that.”
