The line went quiet for three seconds except for the faint hum of an engine behind him.

“Then she lied to me too,” Derek said quickly, the words tumbling over each other.

“Hannah, you know how she is.

She manipulates people.

She took my debit card and pulled nineteen thousand dollars out of our joint account.”

“You were standing at the teller window at the Norfolk branch on Monday at nine fourteen in the morning.”

“Because she was standing right behind me, threatening to file for emergency guardianship if I refused,” he said, breathing hard.

“She used six thousand of it to pay off her old credit card debt and spent the rest on this Caribbean cruise.