Richard came to me with that same gray face. “She’ll lose the house, Claire. The house my father built. Where I grew up.”
So I loaned her four hundred and twenty thousand dollars. My attorney insisted on doing it properly, with a recorded deed of trust against the house, and an agreement that Eleanor would keep the property insured and stay current on her taxes going forward.
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I never asked her for a single payment.
Then Graham got sued by a former employee, and the lawsuit dragged the Cole family name through the local paper, and I quietly paid to settle it.
Then the catering company needed a line of credit from the bank, and the bank wanted a personal guarantee, and Richard’s credit wasn’t strong enough anymore.
