Bethany stared at the screen while Trevor leaned closer. The notifications showed that the automatic payments connected to several of her accounts had been canceled. His expression changed immediately. “What payments?” he asked. Bethany tried to brush him off, but I finally answered. For four years, I had been covering debts she had hidden from him. I opened my records and showed the transfers—$740 here, $1,100 there, then thousands every month. Credit cards, insurance, school expenses, even money she claimed was for groceries while posting vacation photos online. Altogether, she owed me nearly $79,000.
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