The screenshots started arriving before we reached Columbus.
Rachel kept driving. I kept reading.
It was all there.
August 11th: Hey Laur, how’s your mom doing? Heard she’s looking at houses?
August 19th: Did she find a place? Just curious. Happy for her.
September 4th: Linden Court, nice. What town is that again? Is she putting down a big down payment or financing most of it?
I stopped on that one.
Is she putting down a big down payment or financing most of it?
Why would a man who was supposedly happy for his ex-wife’s fresh start need to know how she was financing it?
I kept scrolling.
September 9th, to Lauren: Can you send me the listing link? Vanessa wants to see it. She loves those old maple trees.
And then, buried in the middle of a long thread, a message that wasn’t to Lauren at all.
