Flatly.

Not because the money was not there — the money was everywhere, in every luxury item in that house.

She refused, and she accused my wife of faking an illness, of inventing cancer, in order to steal my military pay.

And my sister Brenda made sure Chloe could not go around her.

Brenda monitored my wife’s phone, watched her calls and her messages, so that Chloe could not reach me overseas, could not reach my Army friends, could not reach anyone who might have helped her.

They sealed her in.