the hidden funds by claiming Brandon had merely been protecting assets from “unreasonable external expenses.”
Claire leaned forward.
“Protecting assets from whom exactly?”
Brandon looked across the conference table at me.
“From her family’s endless financial demands!”
For the first time in months, I felt completely calm.
I had personally paid for his brother’s wedding.
I had funded his mother’s medical care.
I had covered rent for his relatives.
I had bought expensive gifts for members of his family.
Yet my mother living with us for three months was supposedly
