Major Hannah Nolan Comes Home to Chesapeake and Discovers Nineteen Thousand Dollars Gone
“On Tuesday you told me you hadn’t left the house in a month.”
“That was a different Tuesday.” Two clicks.
“The bank flagged the charge as a duplicate and then it went through, reference four four seven one, dash, zero eight.
It’s on a sticky note by my phone if you want it for your records.”
I stopped turning the cup.
“Why do you know that number by heart?”
“Because I pay my own bills, dear.
That’s why.”