Every January I Sent My Son-in-Law $40,000 for My Granddaughter. Then She Whispered, ‘Grandpa, Follow Dad.’

I thought about her secondhand coat, her careful words, her anxious glances at the clock.

“What should I do next?”

“Speak to the authorities with me.

Then speak to the lawyer.

Don’t turn your granddaughter into a source of evidence.

She deserves adults who will handle this.”

I nodded.

It was not the exciting answer a storybook hero would choose.