My brother shattered my knee after I exposed his secret marriage—then one nurse’s question at the hospital uncovered a crime far worse than anyone expected
Kathleen added bitterly. “He used a piece of land I inherited from my grandmother as collateral to open his company and then left me to pay the debt.”
For the first time, we understood we were all part of the same pattern — Austin chose people for what he could get from them and turned them into enemies the moment they stopped being useful.