Even if it isn’t your business.

Especially then.

A year later I started a small nonprofit offering free legal and financial help to people trapped in economic abuse, family fraud, and the quiet theft that gets done to the elderly.

Lenora runs the legal side; my father advises on the corporate-fraud cases, cane and all.

Our first call came on a Tuesday morning — a woman of seventy-eight, crying, explaining that her son had mortgaged her house behind her back and kept telling her she was too confused to manage her own accounts.

I pulled a legal pad toward me and picked up a pen.