“Are you taking my mother’s house too?” “Ironwood has no interest in your mother’s house,” I said.

“But our audit turned up something you should know: her home was already heavily mortgaged, and you had missed four consecutive payments long before you ever met me.

The bank is foreclosing on its own.

That has nothing to do with me.” He sank into a chair in the lobby, and the last of his arrogance went out of him.

“My mother always said you were a nobody,” he whispered.