“You always asked why I stayed in touch with my mother, even after everything. The truth is, I didn’t trust my father. But I knew he’d never shut Kiran out. I told my mom that it was the only way I’d stay civil. What he didn’t know was that Mom and I were using those visits to move things into place, including this letter.”
I paused, my eyes blurring.
“My mom initially took money out slowly, in cash, from a savings account Harold never knew about. She placed it in a shoebox under their bed, but Harold found it. Mom knew he’d squander it, so she secretly moved it to the safe in the basement where he wouldn’t find it.”
A woman holding a box while seated on a bed | Source: Pexels
My late husband explained how we happened to visit on the day Harold planned to use the money, so he assumed we stole it. Michael’s mother never corrected her husband because she knew what was at stake.
She had to live with sacrificing the relationship we had with her to secure the money for our future. The plan was that after Harold died, Kiran, Michael, and I would receive the money because my FIL sure wouldn’t leave us a cent.
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