Chapter 2: Forty-One Thousand Reasons
Part 2 ⬇️
The number on that screen didn't make sense at first.
I actually leaned closer, thinking I had misread it.
I hadn't.
Eleven withdrawals over nine months.
Never more than $4,800 at a time — always just under the amount that triggers a bank alert.
Whoever had done this knew exactly what they were doing.
Total taken: $41,200.
"Ms.
Bennett, would you like me to print the transaction history?"
I couldn't speak.
I nodded.
The withdrawals had started three weeks after Harrison lost his job.
The same week Sloan suggested they move in "just until things settle down."
I drove home with the printed pages folded in my coat pocket.
Harrison's car was in the driveway.
I walked into the kitchen, set the papers on the table, and smoothed them flat without saying a word.
Harrison looked down.
Then he looked up at me.
And he didn't look surprised.
"Mom, I can explain—"
"How long have you known?"
He was quiet for four full seconds.
That silence told me everything his answer never could.
Then Sloan walked in from the hallway, looked at the papers on the table, and said the one thing I never expected.
"Those transfers were his idea."
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Bennett found out next — and what she did about it — is in the full story.
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