“Why not?”

“Because the money is safe now.

I don’t need to make her humiliation bigger than it already is.”

Zoe considered that with the seriousness she gives to everything.

“Even if she was wrong?”

“Especially then.”

I meant it.

There is a kind of person who, having been proven right, needs the whole world to watch the other person be proven wrong, and I did not want to become that person in front of my daughter, because she was learning how to be a person by watching me be one.