“What does this mean?” she asked with a trembling voice as she looked at Garrett for answers. “It means the house isn’t yours and it never belonged to Garrett either,” Barnaby replied.
Garrett tried to blame a mistake at the bank but I stepped forward to stop his lies. “The mistake was thinking you could use my money to build a life with my sister,” I told him.
I threw the bank statements at his feet to show I knew about the money he had stolen from our joint account. “You tricked me!” Melody screamed at Garrett while she started to cry in front of the officers.
“You were the one who pressured me to get this house right away!” Garrett yelled back at her. The officers told them they had thirty minutes to pack their basic belongings and leave the premises.
Melody tried to use her pregnancy as an excuse to stay but the police stayed firm on the eviction. The next half hour was a pathetic display of them dragging trash bags and suitcases to their car.
Garrett tried to talk to me one last time to see if we could somehow fix the situation. “No, the only thing I am fixing is my house after you two made a mess of it,” I told him.