Iris Held On to Her Paid-Off Title When Her Father Threatened to Call the Police
“The lease starts immediately at twenty-one hundred dollars a month.”
“I brought a cashier’s check for the deposit,” I said.
“First month’s rent and the security deposit come to forty-two hundred dollars total,” he said.
I opened my leather checkbook and laid my signed bank check flat on the counter between us.
The money came straight from my promotion bonus, which David had deposited into my account two days earlier.
I picked up the manager’s silver pen and signed my legal name on the three signature lines at the bottom of the last page.
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