“That was the only thing you ever gave me freely.

Everything else came with a price I’m done paying.”

Chapter 15 — What About Me

One investigator approached my father and told him, calmly, that he was going to be questioned regarding insurance fraud, evidence tampering, and conspiracy.

My mother was informed, separately and more gently, that financial records tied her to several of the transactions.

And Jessica, watching our parents’ worlds end, backed slowly toward the wall, and asked the question that revealed, in four words, everything she had always been.

“What about me?”