A Five Hundred Forty Thousand Dollar Note Left My Husband with Nothing

this place is three months behind, Laura.”

“I know,” I said.

“So how do you expect to pay the utilities?” he asked, gesturing to the lamp on the side table.

“My mother is not going to bail us out this time.”

“I never asked her to,” I said.

He turned back to the laptop, his fingers hovering over the keys as if he could force the screen continue reading …