For Seven Years I Sent Forty Thousand Dollars Every January, Until Emma Finally Spoke

“You let my wife believe she had ruined our family.”

“I was protecting my assets,” Mark said.

“You were protecting a boat,” I said.

“You stole two hundred and eighty thousand dollars from my store,” I said.

“I know,” Mark said.

“But Laura loved that house,” Mark said.

“She picked out the wallpaper in the front hall.”

Hearing him say her name made the muscles in my jaw tighten.