“It was already in final approval.”

“But the money hadn’t hit the account yet!”

“And does that make it any less fraudulent?”

Chapter 22 — The Word Fraud

The word fraud hung in the air and would not leave.

Until this moment, the extended family had managed to file the whole thing under a squabble — an entitled city bride against an overbearing mother-in-law, the kind of thing that blows over.