Sandra asked about the strange tension after his business trip, and he sighed. It hadn’t been anything criminal, only a conflict with a coworker that left him feeling humiliated and overwhelmed. He hadn’t wanted to burden her during her pregnancy, and his silence had accidentally cast a shadow far darker than intended.
Suddenly, all the strange letters made sense—the debt notices, the wrong credit offers, and the unfamiliar addresses. The pieces clicked together painfully. Someone had been using his identity for months, building a trail of damage that had finally collided with the most vulnerable moment of their lives.