“If not for me, Desmond would be on the street.”

Desmond walked in and set a heavy folder beside her coffee cup.

“Then why don’t you tell everyone exactly how much is left to pay?”

The silence that fell was total.

Chapter 21 — Read Aloud

Vernon put on his reading glasses, drew out the statements, and read the transfers aloud — the $420,000 into Junia’s account, then the monthly checks he had personally written.