Brandon was putting in long hours at his office, working to pay down his commercial business debt without a property loan backed by my real estate.

When Brandon showed up at my door by the sea carrying that little bag of lemon tea biscuits, I gave him my personal forgiveness, but I wouldn’t give him back access to corporate money.

I decided not to demand fourteen years of back rent on the estate house, and I decided not to press criminal charges over the altered county filings.

I sold the six-bedroom property through Mitchell Family Holdings and put every bit of the proceeds safely into the corporate account.