I Canceled Seven Hundred Dollars After Christmas Night Left My Daughter Alone in the Dark

“Look at these charges,” I said, pointing at the screen.

Evan bent over my shoulder, staring at the store names and dollar amounts.

“She told everybody you were paying her electric bill,” Evan said quietly.

“She spent seven hundred dollars in shops in five days,” I said.

I saved the PDF in the House Payments folder under the name January_2023_Receipt.

I raised the scanner lid, set the February receipt on the glass, and shut the lid.

I scanned March, April, May, and June, saving every document into the new folder.