Ruth watched me work at her kitchen table.

“Is that money yours?” she asked.

“Some of it is money we earned together.

Some came from my paychecks.

I want to know where it went.”

I found a recurring charge for a business called Hearth Bridge Group.

Its registered address was a shared office building north of downtown Columbus.

I searched publicly available business filings and found that Curtis had organized a small consulting company under the name C.