Question F

[Jonetta]

A letter from Loan Officer Edward Wallace informs Kate that a $300k balloon payment is due in four weeks on a loan taken out by her mother prior to her death. Kate is stunned and angry to learn her mother put up everything she owned as collateral for the loan…including Kate’s candle company and brand name. Kate keeps this info from her sisters while trying to work out a solution to fix the disaster caused by her mother. Share your thoughts on Kate’s mother’s actions and the hurtful effect it has on Kate. Should Kate have shared the news with her sisters immediately? Why does she carry the burden alone?

[Anita]

I give Kate some slack here; she has just been blown up so she may not have been thinking straight. I thought there was something fishy about the loan from the beginning. I couldn't see how she could put up Kate's business without Kate being a part of the loan. Kate should have told her sisters right away, but I do understand why she wanted to explore ways to solve the problem before she told them.

[Robin]

Kate made her mother an officer in the company so she could take care of the banking while Kate was away at school. Her mother putting Kate's business up as collateral on a huge loan would have been devastating to Kate. I think she held off on telling her sisters about the impending disaster because she had a hard time believing that her mother would do such a thing.

[Sharon]

I was pissed at her mother. I get that she had the authority to act on Kate's behalf, but her mother should have told Kate so she could make a plan before the money was due. Regardless of how much authority her mother had, she had to know that it was wrong to use Kate's company without her permission. A mother doesn't do that to her child.

I understand why Kate held off telling her sisters. She was in shock, then everything with Jordan and the attempts on her life were all coming at her at once. I understand the need to protect Isabel too. It took a few days for Kate to wrap her head around everything.

[Sandra]

It definitely too Kate some time to process everything going on. At this point, I was also angry at her mother and was glad to learn later on that she didn't do what she's accused of.