I was organizing financial documents in my home office when I heard Marcus's voice drifting up from the basement, where he'd been taking what he claimed were "work calls" for the past month. What I heard next should have destroyed me completely. But while my husband was probably patting himself on the back for his brilliant secret strategy, I was already mentally calculating exactly how to protect everything we'd built together.
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"So you're confident we can freeze her out of the main accounts before she even knows what's happening?" Marcus's voice carried clearly through the old house's thin floors. My name is Victoria Sterling, and at 38, I had just discovered that my husband of 12 years was secretly orchestrating our divorce with Crawford & Associates, the most ruthless family law firm in Riverside County.
But what Marcus didn't realize was that the woman upstairs organizing those financial documents wasn't just tidying up—I'd been meticulously documenting every asset, every account, and every suspicious phone call for the past six weeks. The very papers scattered across my desk would soon become the foundation of his complete and utter downfall.
I set down the bank statements with hands that remained perfectly steady, even as my world shifted beneath me. Through the basement door, I could hear another voice—clearly the lawyer—outlining a strategy that would have left most wives financially devastated and emotionally shattered.