I didn’t tell her we’d already discussed it.
She hadn’t forgotten my words.
He was trying to figure out which story he could believe.
Finally, he leaned against my shoulder.
“I’m so angry.
“You’re right.
And I miss him.
I hear who he’s talking about.
For his father.
For the man who thought she was.
“And that’s what you have the right to feel,” I said.
Stefan’s duties
The investigation gradually identified where the financial problems came from.
Stefan had losses from ventures he hadn’t told me about.
He took money.
He took on new duties to cover up the previous ones.
Our lives outside seemed orderly, because he did not allow questions to reach me.
Then he found people who promised a solution.
Not a solution to our family problems.
A decision by his fear to be revealed.
In the beginning, he probably told himself that he was only researching.
