The real part wasn’t revenge. It was paperwork, the kind that doesn’t care if your hands shake. My anger dissolved into notarized affidavits, certified mail receipts, and the slow, humiliating process of proving that the people who raised me had also robbed the man who’d once carried me on his shoulders. While Dad’s lawyer called the investigation “a misunderstanding,” we sent the bank statements that didn’t misunderstand, the forged signatures that didn’t misunderstand, the recorded call to Green Hollow that Dad hadn’t known was recorded at all. Mom tried to turn the family against us—“Avery is unstable, Theodore is confused”—but the bank cameras weren’t confused, and the medical evaluator wasn’t unstable. Nights, Grandpa snored in his chair while I spread bills across the dining table, uncovering years of small, careful theft. Some mornings he was sharp as broken gla… Continues…
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