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Chapter 22 - CAROLYN’S CHOICE

Carolyn eventually cooperated.

Not fully.

Enough.

She turned over Ryan’s old laptop.

Why?

“He asked me to destroy it.”

There.

“Did you?”

“No.”

“Why not?”

She looked at me through attorneys.

“Because he scared me.”

I almost laughed.

Finally.

She saw a version.

The laptop contained loan drafts.

My copied signatures.

A spreadsheet:

RACHEL ACCESSIBLE TRUST — PRE-BIRTH.

RACHEL ACCESSIBLE TRUST — POST-BIRTH.

Difference:

$1.08 million.

Ryan had modeled my value before and after our child.

I became a line item.

That document broke something in Carolyn.

She whispered:

“He told me it was just a cash-flow problem.”

It was.

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Financial problems become moral problems when people decide other human beings are tools.

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