I Came Home Two Days Early to Surprise My Family — and Found My Mother Rationed, Bruised, and Terrified in My Own Kitchen

A third.

Declined.

She whirled around to face me, her eyes gone wild behind the dark lenses.

“What did you do, Luca?”

“Protected the family’s assets,” I said, and set my mug down on the marble.

“You can’t freeze my accounts!”