He Made Me Financially Dependent So I’d Never Leave — He Forgot I Used to Be a Risk Analyst, and I’d Been Preparing for Eleven Months
Over the months that followed, my life ran on two tracks at once, and I lived on both of them simultaneously.
On one, I was a heavily pregnant mother packing school lunches, hunting for Amelia’s missing socks, and reading Lucas to sleep.
On the other, I was a former risk analyst sitting beside a forensic accountant until late in the evening, doing the work I had been built for.
The financial picture grew sharper and more precise over time, and I want to be honest about what it did and did not show, because the honesty is the whole point.
It did not show that everything Brandon had ever done was criminal.
Many of his transfers were entirely legitimate business.