My Husband Demanded My $5 Million Lakefront Deed to Save His Failing Company—Then His Mother Shoved Me Down the Stairs and He Served Me Divorce Papers in the Hospital

Then she looked at me.

“But if Flynn is circling the property, I want the original documents here.”

“Why?”

“Because there is no good reason for somebody under commercial debt pressure to photograph a document he has no authority to use.”

Reasonable.

I left the folder.

PART 7 — NOT A MAGIC COVENANT

I asked Phoebe something else.

“My grandfather always said the property couldn’t be used as collateral.

Is that just family language, or is it legally enforceable?”