After ending the call, I asked Elena to bring me my phone. Then I called my attorney, Mara Chen.
Everyone believed I was simply a quiet bookkeeper, but I had built the financial systems behind Adrian’s consulting firm and owned thirty-eight percent of the company.
Within an hour, Mara contacted the bank and officially withdrew my guarantee from my parents’ mortgage application.
By sunset, their loan approval had collapsed, and the $55,000 deposit they had rushed to pay became nonrefundable-
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