I am strong, Dad.
You just never imagined I’d use it on my own behalf instead of yours.”
PART 4
The investigation was not something I had to drive. Once forgery of a servicemember’s documents is reported, with evidence as clean as mine, it moves on its own.
Justin had, in fact, forged the guarantor contract. He’d accessed enough of my information — the arrogance of a brother who assumed I’d never look, never fight, never do anything but pay — to construct a document making me responsible, and he’d changed the wedding date to keep me away from the venue and the final accounting until the debt was mine.
It was not a sophisticated fraud. It was the lazy, entitled fraud of a man who’d never once faced a consequence, who genuinely believed that “you’re strong, Samantha, you’ll handle it” was a law of physics.
