Chapter 6 - JASON LOST MORE THAN HIS MONEYFederal investigators charged Jason with financial crimes linked to the forged business documents and interstate transactions.
His company froze.
Accounts were seized.
Business partners disappeared.
Friends stopped calling.
Brittany left him.
Not dramatically.
She simply stopped answering.
The house he planned to give her became part of a legal dispute.
The future he imagined collapsed.
But Rachel discovered something surprising.
Watching him lose money did not make her happy.
What mattered was Mia sleeping through the night again.
What mattered was her laughter returning.
What mattered was when she finally asked:
“Mommy, can we paint my room yellow?”
Rachel smiled.
“Why yellow?”
“Because it looks happy.”
So they painted it yellow.
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Together.
For the first time in months, their home felt like theirs.
