I touched my thin silver bracelet and set my hand flat on the kitchen table.

“I’ll set your suitcase on the side porch in the morning,” I told Daniel.

Neither Daniel nor Ava answered me.

Eight weeks passed before the final official statement from Community First Bank arrived in the mail.

It was eight o’clock on a Tuesday morning when I sat at the kitchen table with my green ceramic mug.

The window envelope held two printed pages on heavy white paper marked with the bank logo.

I unfolded the statement and read the line item highlighted in yellow marker at the top.