Chapter 8 — What She’d Been Doing

The financial dimension, it turned out, was the whole rotten center of it.

Clara Higgins laid it out for me carefully, the way you tell someone a thing you know will hurt.

Thomas had left his family well provided for — a substantial life insurance payout, and monthly survivor benefits meant to keep his children fed, clothed, and stable for years.

That money had a purpose, and the purpose was Mason and Daisy.