I’ll never forget the day I came home to find Bailey missing. My soon-to-be-ex husband Adam had taken our golden retriever to a shelter while I was at work – his final power play in our bitter divorce. What he didn’t realize was that this act of cruelty would unravel his carefully constructed lies.
For weeks, I lived in nightmare, calling every shelter within 100 miles. When a private investigator finally located Bailey with a lovely adoptive family, I wept with relief. They tearfully agreed to return her when they heard our story. But the investigator found something else – proof Adam had been hiding marital assets, including a secret luxury home.
The courtroom fallout was swift. The judge awarded me a significant settlement, enough to buy a beautiful house with land where Bailey could run free. These days, watching her chase squirrels in our backyard, I realize Adam’s attempt to break me actually set us both free.
