Chapter 8 - Grant Hid A Different Financial Problem
Financial disclosures arrived.
That was when I found the debt.
Grant had nearly $61,000 on credit cards and a personal line of credit.
I knew about less than half.
Where had it gone?
Some was ordinary overspending.
Travel.
Restaurants.
Electronics.
Some went to his family.
But one category repeated.
CARTER STRATEGIC CONSULTING.
Grant had formed an LLC eighteen months earlier.
It earned almost nothing.
Yet thousands flowed through it.
Maya requested records.
Grant resisted.
Eventually, statements showed he had been using the LLC to pay personal expenses while telling me cash was tight.
Worse, he had borrowed against a joint home-equity line without clearly explaining the purpose.
The money was not hidden in an affair.
There was no secret mistress.
It was something more mundane.
Grant wanted to appear more successful than he was.
He funded that appearance with debt.
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Then relied on my savings to absorb family obligations.
His pride had become an accounting system.
