Vanessa didn’t flinch. I’ll give her that.
“She wasn’t wrong.”
I had trusted her to help while Frank was sick, so she had access.
She took money for her own mess, swearing she’d replace it before anyone noticed. She didn’t.
I found out when a payment for his nurse came back declined. Then she lied to my face, twice, before she finally told the truth.
That’s all of it. It’s plenty.
And now I had to see his eyes in her face.
a payment for his nurse came back declined.
“I don’t deny any of it,” Vanessa said. Her voice was low and steady. “I was selfish, and I was wrong, and I’ve had thirteen years to live with it. I didn’t come to you because you had every reason to say no. I went to my sister first.”
“I was suspicious too, Mom,” Laura said quickly. “I met her alone. Then again. Months went by. She never asked for money. She never asked for you. She never even asked to be forgiven.”
