Twelve thousand five hundred more, spread across a dozen smaller favors nobody ever mentioned again.” The numbers added up on the screen, cold and total, to just under seventy thousand dollars.

Chapter 19 — The Loan Application

Then she opened the last document.

It was a commercial loan application — a hundred and forty thousand dollars in “working capital” for Ashvale Manor.

Emiliano was listed as the primary applicant.

Rafaela was listed as the co-signer and guarantor.