was again.
The doctrine of feeling.
If Claire felt trapped, then any action became justified.
Rebecca handed another packet to me.
“There’s one more issue.”
I almost didn’t want it.
“What?”
“The home equity loan.”
“I thought the house couldn’t be borrowed against.”
“It can’t.”
“Then how—”
“It wasn’t borrowed against your house.”
Everyone went still.
Rebecca looked toward Derek.
“It was borrowed against this gym.”
Derek’s mouth fell open.
“What?”
“The loan documents use Apex Predator’s property interest as collateral.”
“That’s impossible.”
“No.”
Rebecca pulled out the document.
“It only looked like a residential equity line in the account portal because the servicing bank mislabeled the digital product. The underlying collateral is commercial.”
Derek grabbed the papers.
His eyes raced over them.
“This isn’t my signature.”
Rebecca nodded.
“Exactly.”
Now Derek looked at Claire.
Everything changed.
“Claire?”
She backed away.
“Derek, listen—”
“What did you do?”
“I was trying
