Chapter 16 — We Both Lost

Over the following months, the courts did their quiet, unglamorous work.

Jonathan signed a divorce agreement that cleanly separated our assets and left him with no claim on anything of mine.

On the criminal matter he took a deferred-judgment plea — restitution, court-ordered anger management, a protective order, community service.

Florence was compelled to publicly retract her slander and pay damages.

NexoCloud collapsed entirely when an independent audit found personal expenses charged to corporate accounts and inflated contracts routed to his friends; the board removed him and sold the patents to pay the debts, leaving him personally liable for loans he’d guaranteed before we ever met.