Twelve thousand three hundred dollars taken from a sixty-six-year-old widow. In Ohio that’s elder financial abuse, and it’s a felony.”

I looked at my brother.

“I filed the fraud report at the bank this afternoon. That’s already moving, and it isn’t mine to call off — the bank and the state will do what they do.

So the only thing left to decide is how tonight goes.”

Derek’s face came apart.

“You can pack tonight, be out by nine, sign the repayment agreement, and coordinate your furniture through my attorney. Or you refuse, and Monday morning I add a hostile eviction on top of everything else, with six witnesses from this table on the record.