Chapter 16 - THE SECOND RECORDING

Teresa found another clip on Patricia’s cloud account.
Different night.
Oscar and Patricia arguing after I refused the condo refinance in January.
Oscar:
“Lucy thinks because her name is on the deed, I’m disposable.”
Patricia:
“She said no to collateral, not to you.”
Oscar:
“Same thing.”
That sentence mattered.
No was abandonment.
A boundary was betrayal.
Patricia:
“You cannot punish her for protecting what her mother left.”
Oscar:
“I have spent four years paying into that place.”
Patricia:
“Then divorce and ask a court what you’re entitled to.”
Oscar:
May you like
“I’m not losing my family over a piece of paper.”
Yet he had built his plan out of paper.