who wanted his wife safe and his son taught a lesson money hadn’t managed to teach him while his father was alive.
So when Vanessa demanded I transfer her HOA fee, I didn’t. When she said I owed it because “Dad always covered those expenses,” I said Dad was gone, and the penthouse was theirs, and so were the bills. And when I pulled my half of our shared emergency fund — my fifteen thousand dollars, legally mine, which I was entitled to and which I was done lending to people
