It was something smaller.

His father laughed quietly when Lukas said I never checked the bank statements.

At the time, they thought that was funny.

Years later, so do I.

Just for a different reason.

Because the woman they dismissed as financially inattentive was a financial administrator.

The woman they thought could not understand them was fluent enough to hear every word.

The woman they thought would stay because she desperately wanted a child eventually became a mother without any of them.