Chapter 10
“They aren’t just broke. They’re drowning. Rob’s at the center of a massive malpractice suit his insurance refused to cover because of gross negligence.
His assets are frozen. But that’s not the worst part. Daniel — look at the email I just sent you. You need to see whose name is on the secondary loans Vanessa took out.”
The glow of the laptop felt like a spotlight in the dim room. I opened the encrypted file.
Page after page of financial ruin. Robert’s dental empire was a house of cards that had already collapsed. But it was the third document that made my stomach heave — a line of credit leveraged against a massive chunk of collateral.
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The collateral was my mother’s house. The house my father had built. The retirement accounts he’d bled for.
Over the last fourteen months, Vanessa had systematically drained Margaret’s safety net. She’d convinced our mother to co-sign loans, to “invest” in Rob’s expanding practice, all while the malpractice vultures circled.
