Once she closes in October, I will drop a fake Sept 14 lease on the police using the door code.

She paid forty thousand down out of our settlement.

Half that house should have been mine anyway, the down payment came out of the divorce money.

Two minutes later in the screenshot, Mark had typed another line: Ignore that, wrong group.

Below the screenshot, Lauren had just texted me a separate note: Mom, I forgot he sent that.

He called me right after and swore it was a joke about his back taxes.

I believed him.