Chapter 12 - CHRISTMAS GIFTS
Rina traced the Christmas spending.
I expected scandal.
Instead:
Madison’s tablet came from Clara’s credit card.
Connor’s gaming console too.
Helen bought the bicycle from personal savings.
The humiliation had not been funded by the fraudulent loan.
Good.
Truth did not need decoration.
The cheap rocking horse had been retrieved from the dumpster behind my parents’ garage three days before Christmas.
Who put it there?
Helen.
Why?
She claimed the wood was cracked and she was “clearing clutter.”
Then Clara suggested wrapping it for Josephine as a joke.
Silas added marker scribbles with Connor.
Robert delivered it.
Four adults.
May you like
Different levels of cruelty.
Nobody accidentally stumbled into that moment.
