It says to hold the Reyes payment for the next quarter.
And then it says: she’s young, she’ll have other options.
That is the only sentence in nine million dollars of paperwork where my sister explains herself, and it took her eleven words.
I knew that voice immediately.
It is my mother’s, at a hospital bed, in 1999, working out what to do with a problem.
PART 5
Now my part, and there is no honest version of this without it.
I knew about that foundation.
Not the theft. Not Tamsin. Nothing in that file.
But the name. I knew about the name.
In 2018 I was on a panel at a property conference, and a journalist chairing it asked me, pleasantly, at the end: and of course there’s the foundation that bears your name — how involved are you these days?
