“He asked me to work overtime that weekend to cover our gas bills,” I said.

Rebecca pulled a separate document from under her yellow notepad.

“The wire skipped your joint checking account entirely,” she said.

She placed a printed escrow deposit receipt on top of the bank ledger.

“The money was wired directly to a title company holding an escrow down payment account for a property at 412 Maple Drive in Golden, Colorado.”

The address was in the same zip code as the shoe boutique where Ava’s white leather sneakers had come from.

I stared at the name of the title company.