My Parents Chose a Birthday Dinner Over My Family’s Funeral—Then They Asked for Thirty Percent of the $18.7 Million Settlement

I stood.

“We aren’t ordering,” I said.

Outside, my mother caught up with me near the edge of the walkway.

“You’re making this unnecessarily difficult.”

I looked at her hand on my arm until she removed it.

“Your sister has a future to plan,” she said.

“We need to support that.”

“I needed you last week.”