“Eat quickly and then clear out,” he said loudly. “Meals like this are rare for people like you.”
The room filled with laughter. I stood up slowly and walked to the stage. I took the microphone and asked clearly, “Do you even know who I am?”
His face drained of color. With one touch on my phone the slideshow behind me disappeared and a bank transfer statement filled the enormous screen.
“This shows a five hundred thousand dollar transfer from my account yesterday morning,” I said clearly.
Gasps spread across the room. The next slide displayed Alyssa’s transfer to Bradley fifteen minutes later. “Bradley claims he bought your dream house with his own effort,” I continued. “However it appears he purchased it with my money.”
I revealed the documents proving I had paid for the wedding expenses as well.
Then I lifted the foreclosure notice. “This morning the bank sold Charles’s outstanding debt to Montgomery Shipping Holdings,” I said while staring directly at him. “I own that debt now.”
Silence swallowed the room.