The Documents in My Purse Proved Harrison Had Been Planning to Use My Money Long After Dinner
When Harrison called again, he was no longer asking. He was demanding that I return with my card because Gloria was “humiliated” and the restaurant wanted payment. I told him I had never agreed to cover thirty guests and that the people who ordered the food could divide the bill themselves. Then I looked at the folder sitting beside me. Earlier that week, I had found copies of a home-equity application Harrison had started using our house as collateral. Attached were emails between him and Gloria discussing how the money could clear her credit cards and pay for renovations at her condo. One draft even contained a version of my signature that I had never written.
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