I’m allowed to manage the household money.”

I laid the printed bank ledgers on the coffee table.

“You spent ten thousand dollars of my military pay while Walt lay in a cold house with no food and no medicine.”

“We’ll pay you back when the estate settles,” Brett said.

“Pay me back with what,” I said.

My mother stepped closer, scoffing.

“With his life insurance and his pension, obviously.

As his widow I’m the sole beneficiary of his estate, so you can climb down off your high horse.”