Chapter 14: The Choice
The choice was simple.
I could let the debts crush me.
Or I could fight.
I chose to fight.
I hired a better lawyer. I gathered every document. I started a case against Thomas’s estate for fraud and undue influence.
The lawyer warned me it would be long and expensive.
I didn’t care.
I sold what I could. I took a part-time job. I worked every day to pay what I could while the case moved forward.
One night, I sat at the kitchen table with my daughter on the phone.
“I’m proud of you, Mom,” she said.
I smiled for the first time in weeks.
The choice was not easy.
But it was mine.
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And for the first time since the funeral, I felt like I was no longer in Thomas’s trap.
I was building my own way out.
