Phone records and messages gathered during the investigation supported allegations that she’d planned to provoke an airport search.
Prosecutors charged Brittany with offenses involving stolen prescription medications, false reporting, and an attempt to frame me. The charges proceeded through the judicial system, not through any personal influence of mine.
Meanwhile, my attorney uncovered another troubling detail.
Brittany had approached a real estate investor about buying my lakefront property. She portrayed me as mentally declining and claimed my relatives would soon control the sale.
The investor provided those messages.
Ethan read them at my kitchen table.
His hands trembled.
“She told me everything was for your protection.”
I looked directly at him.
“And you never asked me?”
Tears filled his eyes.
“I thought I was helping.”
“Helping requires listening, Ethan. You listened to everyone except your mother.”
He bowed his head.
“I know.”
I didn’t forgive him that day.
