Chapter 10 - THE FIRST LAWSUIT
Nathan filed for divorce before I did.
Strategic.
He requested temporary spousal support, access to marital accounts, and an emergency injunction preventing me from “dissipating business assets.”
My company was separate property.
Still, litigation creates pressure.
Maya expected it.
We responded with the prenup.
The forged postnup.
The police report.
The expense audit.
The fake board complaint.
Nathan’s lawyer looked less confident after seeing the full file.
Then Eleanor filed separately.
Morgan Family Holdings sued my company for unpaid consulting services.
Derek Morgan Consulting invoices became part of the claim.
Derek immediately contradicted them.
He testified no real services existed.
The lawsuit began collapsing.
Then Eleanor claimed the transfers I made over years were equity contributions.
Not gifts.
Not loans.
Equity.
If true, I might somehow owe obligations connected to the company.
There was no signed subscription agreement.
No shareholder record.
No capitalization entry under my name.
Nothing.
Her theory depended on family language:
Claire always takes care of us.
That is not securities documentation.
Maya almost smiled reading it.
Then the lender deadline hit.
Morgan Family Holdings failed to raise the $250,000.
The lender did not seize everything instantly.
Instead:
Default notice.
Thirty-day cure.
Negotiation.
Restructuring.
Reality.
Not the apocalypse Eleanor predicted.
The family had alternatives.
Sell the lake house.
Sell Vanessa’s hidden mansion.
Reduce expenses.
Bring in outside capital.
They just preferred my money.
That realization freed me.
I had not been refusing to save them.
I had been refusing to subsidize the easiest solution.
Then Eleanor sold the lake house.
One property gone.
Company survived.
Again.
Their crisis had options.
Then a private investigator called Maya.
He had been hired by Eleanor.
To follow me.
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He wanted to talk.
And he had recordings.
