My husband came home and said, “I’m in love with another woman, but I still love you, so I’ll just live in both houses” — I thought he was joking until he began packing, so I taught him a lesson he never expected from me.

 

“Callum, tell your wife whose name you put on the documents for my house.”

 

Callum suddenly lunged toward the envelope—but Graham reached it first.Graham stepped between us and held the envelope against his chest.

 

 

Callum stopped, but his eyes remained fixed on it.

 

“Give that back,” Callum said.

 

“It

belongs to Elena.”

 

“No,” Elena replied.

 

“It belongs to the woman whose name you used.”

 

Graham removed six pages and placed them on the table.

 

My full name, Tessa Ward, appeared beneath the words personal guarantor.

 

“What am I looking at?” I asked.

 

“A second loan connected to Elena’s house,” Graham said.

 

“Your home has been listed as additional security.”

 

Callum pointed at him.

 

“You don’t know the whole arrangement.”

 

“I inherited this house from my grandmother before we married,” I said.