“We’ve known for months.”
“How?”
“We checked.”
A chill moved through me.
“You’ve been checking on me?”
David hesitated.
“Since your second year.”
I stared at both of them.
“You stopped speaking to me, but you followed what I was doing?”
Ryan looked down.
“We were angry.”
“About my money.”
“Yes.”
There was no excuse this time.
David swallowed.
“We told ourselves we were worried about you, but that wasn’t all of it.”
“You were worried about the inheritance.”
“Yes.”
The word landed harder because he finally admitted it.
“We thought of your savings as family money,” he continued. “We shouldn’t have, but we did.”
Ryan nodded.
“When you spent it on school, we acted like you were taking something from us.”
“Something that was never yours.”
“Yes.”
I put the papers on the counter.
“So, you abandoned me.”
David’s eyes filled.
“At first, we thought you’d quit.”
I frowned.
“You thought I’d fail?”
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