Chapter 070 – The Accounting Report
Chapter 70 - Chapter 070 – The Accounting Report
The accounting report arrived in August.
Seventy-four pages.
Numbers are cold until they learn your family’s names.
Martin had taken the most. Elaine had paid herself “management fees” while handling bills I had not asked her to manage. Peter had used my debit card for groceries, gas, and one pair of golf shoes.
Golf shoes.
I laughed until I cried.
Not because they were worse than the rest.
Because theft sometimes becomes clearest in stupid objects.
A house sale sounds strategic.
A bank transfer sounds complicated.
Golf shoes bought with your mother’s debit card while telling her money was tight?
That is character with spikes.
The report also showed something uglier: my children had not been panicking.
They had been preparing.
Small withdrawals.
Password changes.
Address updates.
A realtor inquiry.
An assisted-living tour scheduled in my name without my consent.
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Abandonment had not been a bad morning.
It had been a plan.
