Country club memberships.
Everyone assumed they were wealthy.
The truth was far uglier.
They were drowning in debt.
Secretly.
Desperately.
They had refinanced their house again and again.
Taken out additional loans.
Maxed out credit lines.
Ignored warnings.
Eventually, the bank foreclosed.
They lost everything.
But they never told anyone.
Not even Jessica.
When the property went to private auction, I discovered it.
And despite everything they had done to me, I couldn’t let them become homeless.
