The first betrayal wasn’t the forged signature; it was the empty doorway when I was dying. The second was them filling it months later, polished and perfumed, when the money went missing. My father’s jaw was set like a verdict, my mother’s pearls clicked every time she swallowed a lie, and Chloe’s sunglasses hid everything but the guilt in her clenched teeth as Harold’s report trembled in my hands. When I turned the second page and her own handwri… Continues…
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