Then, more softly, “Let me come home and make it right.”

“I’ll put ten thousand into the kids’ account,” she said.

“Today.

As a goodwill gesture.

You’ll see it before dinner.”

Behind me, the iPad glowed on the counter.

A notification dropped down from the top of the screen, and the second number was in the header, the same one that got the bank alerts.

I turned the iPad around.