Dad’s money is already in my husband’s account, Mom.***You’re seventy-one. What do you even need a f0rtune f0r?

“Why?”

“Because if you don’t know every safeguard, no one can pressure you into disabling every safeguard.”

I had called him dramatic.

He had smiled.

Now, standing in the same room where he had said those words, I understood.

My daughter rose from the sofa.

“That money was Dad’s.”

I looked at her.

“No.”

She blinked.