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

on the designer gold clasp she had once quietly told her sister was a clever imitation.

“Whose house is this, Laura?” she asked, her quiet drawl dropping even lower than usual.

“It is mine,” I said.

“I did not know your parents had this kind of property in Savannah,” she said, tapping her gold signet ring against the strap of her purse.