Chapter 23: Closure

I didn’t bother explaining to Richard that I was just as lost as he was when it came to my mother’s squandered estate. I laughed aloud, pleased at his obvious frustration, and simply hung up on him. For all I cared, he could go on thinking that I had somehow managed to get my hands on it and done all of the squandering.

Despite the confounding mystery of it all, I felt better knowing that he could no longer leech off of my family. The possibility of finally being free of his looming shadow kindled a new flicker of hope in me. Maybe all stories didn’t have to end badly. Maybe goodness could prevail?

But if he hadn’t run the investments into the ground, then who had? And why?

Hopefully, my lawyer had found some answers.