My mother-in-law sent me a message that clearly wasn’t meant for me.
It said:
“Has she signed the papers yet?”
Then another message appeared.
“Not yet. He needs to get her to sign before she knows what they’re really for.”
I immediately took screenshots.
My husband walked into the room.
I asked him what papers they were talking about.
He looked at my phone.
Then he went completely quiet.
He told me it was nothing.
I asked him again.
He said it was “family business.”
The next morning, I checked the documents he’d asked me to sign the previous week.
He had told me they were refinancing paperwork.
They weren’t. It was about….