Chapter 12 - THE SECOND SECRET IN THE STATEMENTSThe pharmacy was not the only repeated merchant.
Once I began looking, I found:
A storage facility.
$189 per month.
A mail-forwarding service.
$42.
A private mailbox.
$38.
Those were under Brian’s card.
I asked.
He said:
“Business stuff.”
His fitness franchise had closed ten months earlier.
“What business?”
No answer.
Nina advised formal financial disclosure because Brian and Melissa were still occupying my house and there were concerns about use of my address.
The storage unit contained leftover gym equipment.
No crime.
The private mailbox contained business debt notices Brian did not want arriving at my house.
Embarrassing.
Not sinister.
That was useful.
Once suspicion enters a family, every transaction starts looking like conspiracy.
Most are not.
We had to separate the child secret from ordinary financial failure.
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I forced myself to do that.
Not every hidden envelope was another grandson.
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