Then I opened the transaction history, and I read down the list — cruise tickets, boutiques, premium beverage packages, spa services, cash withdrawals, and long, staggering runs of spending in the ship’s casino.

In less than a week, they had gone through nearly a hundred and seventy thousand dollars.

Money I had believed was set aside for his treatments, his doctors, his food, the heat in his house.

I walked back into the bedroom holding the tablet, working very hard to keep my hands from shaking, and I did not entirely succeed.

Chapter 4 — Just Old Scrap Metal

It was then that I noticed the display cabinet.