The truth about Angela blew up a month later.
It started when a stranger showed up at Franklin's company, waving a loan contract in his face. He claimed Angela had borrowed $2 million from him, passing herself off as Franklin's fiancée, and the repayment date had come and gone with no sign of the money.
When Franklin dug into the matter, he quickly found this was far from the only debt she had racked up.
Angela hadn't left the country 5 years earlier to study abroad.
She'd followed her then-boyfriend, a wealthy heir from a family even wealthier than the Baxters, overseas.
That guy later went bankrupt and dumped her flat.
She'd come back home because she was up to her neck in debt.
She had come looking for Franklin because he was still that gullible fool who'd once promised he'd wait
