The Wire That Stopped at My Kitchen Table
Monique was no longer trying to persuade me the deal was real; she had stopped making that case.
She was trying to find out how much I had already told the bank — the one party in all of this with the actual power to freeze the money.
Which meant that on some level beneath her certainty, in a place she would not look at directly, my sister already suspected what the bank might find.
People do not interrogate you about who you have warned unless some part of them is afraid of what there is to be warned about.
Chapter 13 — The Review Begins
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