Chapter 028 – Elaine’s Math
Chapter 28 - Chapter 028 – Elaine’s Math
Elaine was the family accountant in every sense except employment.
She remembered who paid for what, who owed whom, and which sacrifice could be used in later arguments.
“That house is too much for you,” she said. “Taxes, repairs, insurance. We were trying to protect value.”
“Whose value?” I asked.
She blinked.
“Our family’s.”
“There it is,” Sheriff Reeves murmured.
Elaine looked offended.
I looked at my daughter and remembered braiding her hair before school, saving for her braces, mailing her grocery money after her first divorce.
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Somehow every gift had become, in her mind, part of an account I still owed.
“You protected the sale,” I said. “Not me.”
