My Son’s Warning at the Airport Changed Everything

babe.”

He’d taken it.

“All of it,” Attorney Okafor said gently, as if she knew how hard the words would land. “Every cent.”

Something hot moved through me. Rage, sharp and clean.

“And now?” I asked, voice thin.

“Now he owes close to half a million,” she said. “And the people he owes want payment.”

I stared down at the papers like they might rearrange themselves continue reading …