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I carried that.

Quietly.

So I told her the truth.

“You didn’t lose a vacation,” I said. “You lost the money you tried to steal.”

Silence.

Then Derek took over, calmer, calculating. Talking about compromise. About releasing part of the money so they could “salvage the trip.”

Family accounting.

I told him Daniel had everything.

He hung up.

They came home four days later.

Not because they fixed anything.

Because they couldn’t.