He had turned proximity to my career into marketing while simultaneously treating that career as insignificant inside our home.

That hypocrisy hurt more than I expected.

PART 20 — MY SIGNATURE

Digital forensics traced the copied signature image to an old household scan.

Years earlier, Julian and I refinanced our home.

We scanned several signed forms through his office printer.

A copy of one file remained in cloud storage accessible through an account Julian controlled.

Investigators could not yet prove who extracted the image.

Then they found metadata from a company document edited on a workstation assigned to Julian’s finance director.