You dragged our name through the mud in front of the whole town.”

“I didn’t put my name on that loan,” I said.

“You destroyed this family,” Serena said.

Her voice echoed off the wood walls of the hallway as she grabbed Julian’s arm.

“You held on to that key like a greedy old maid just so you could humiliate your brother.”

She turned and marched down the hallway, her high heels pounding against the oak floorboards.

Julian followed her without looking back and slammed the heavy front door so hard the glass in the transom rattled in its frame.