Chapter 17 - What my father knew
For weeks, David implied Dad had orchestrated everything.
The emergency phone.
The recording.
The financial questions.
Dad became a villain in David’s story:
An interfering father who never accepted his daughter’s marriage.
Reality was more ordinary.
Dad knew the original inheritance amount because he had been executor of Grandma Ruth’s estate.
He knew I had used $42,000 for home improvements because I told him.
He did not know the later transfers until I called that Tuesday.
He suspected David controlled finances too heavily because I often asked Dad questions about accounts I should have been able to answer myself.
Dad had said for years:
“Know where your money is.”
I said:
“David handles it.”
Dad disliked that.
Not David specifically.
The arrangement.
The emergency phone came after I told him David took my smartphone and blocked the garage doorway.
Dad overreacted in one sense.
He bought equipment before I had decided what I thought the incident meant.
He did not overreact in another.
Six days later, Emma used it.
When David accused Dad of setting a trap, Dad answered through counsel:
“I set a way for my granddaughter to call me.”
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Nothing more.
That sentence held.
