Chapter 12 - Margaret’s condo
The next destination hurt more.
$39,500.
Margaret’s name.
Not directly all at once.
Several transfers ultimately paid:
A delinquent home-equity balance.
Condo association arrears.
Some medical bills.
Margaret had money problems after her husband’s death three years earlier.
She told everyone she was fine.
She was not.
David helped.
I knew he paid one $3,000 medical bill.
I did not know he used almost forty thousand dollars from my inheritance.
Margaret’s attorney argued:
She believed the funds were David’s.
Initially, maybe.
Then investigators found a text between them six months before the kitchen incident.
Margaret:
Does Sarah know you used Ruth’s money?
David:
She knows we’re helping family.
Margaret:
Then don’t keep bringing it up. She’ll only make it ugly.
There.
Not proof Margaret planned theft.
Proof she knew the source.
She chose silence.
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Then stood over my broken leg and told me I had made David do it.
That was harder for me to forgive than the wine.
