My father, in one sentence, showed the whole room there had never been anything under her feet but my own family’s generosity, which she had been standing on while she spat.

Chapter 9 — Hidden Money

“Ansel,” Wilhelmina snapped, “make your wife apologize to me.

Right now.”

Ansel opened his mouth and nothing came out.

Odalind stepped forward and looked her husband in the eye.