Lucas found it in 2018 and paid it off with his own money.”

In his office, that signet ring had gone around and around while he told me Lucas had left him holding freight bills and that I ought to be grateful somebody was willing to sort it out.

“The creditor claim he filed lists this same loan number,” Samantha said.

“He collected it from your husband in 2018, and now he’s billing the estate for it again.”

She wrote the number on her pad twice and circled one of them.