A few days later, $35,000 would move from Lucas’s account into a separate account I had never known existed.
The pattern repeated.
Brandon had been using transfers to relatives as a method of quietly siphoning marital money into a private account held under his sole control.
He had hidden more than $200,000.
And he had started doing it long before he attacked my mother.
Long before she refused to loan him money.
Long before I ever considered divorce.
During a formal deposition, Brandon’s attorney tried to justify 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.
