I was putting away dishes.

He asked her what she would do if you refused to change the family trust.

And she told him.” She paused, gathering herself.

“She said that first she had to make you stop trusting me.

Because I was the only person in this house who knew you well enough to tell that something was wrong.

She said I was the problem that had to be handled before anything else could work.”

I looked at Teresa, and I understood, fully, what she was telling me, and what it had cost her to be right about it.