Chapter 6 - The Bank Manager Called Me at Midnight and Revealed That Mark Had Been Stealing From Me for YearsI thought the financial betrayal was over.
It wasn't.
At midnight, my phone rang.
It was the bank manager.
“Ms. Carter, we discovered irregularities.”
“What kind?”
“Transfers.”
“To whom?”
“Your husband.”
My blood went cold.
“How much?”
He gave me the figure.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Mark had been taking money from a business account.
Small amounts at first.
Then larger ones.
He had created fake invoices.
Fake vendors.
Fake expenses.
The money had funded vacations.
Cars.
Gambling.
And Eleanor's lifestyle.
I sat in silence.
Daniel reviewed the records the next morning.
“This is fraud.”
I nodded.
“Can he be prosecuted?”
“Yes.”
I looked at my mother's bedroom.
Then at my children.
“Do it.”
For the first time, I stopped protecting Mark from consequences.
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He had made his choices.
Now he would live with them.
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