Ezoic
“I didn’t know he was planning to leave you,” she said.
Ezoic
I didn’t say anything.
“He told me the money belonged to both of you. He said you were controlling him. He said you were keeping it from the family.”
“The bank asked you to confirm that you were me,” I said.
She breathed unevenly on the other end.
“Dad said it was just a security question.”
“And you answered them,” I said. “Using my name.”
“I know.”
Neither of us said anything for several long seconds.
Then she said, quietly, “What I said at the reunion was horrible.”
“Yes.”
“Grandma told me you needed to be reminded that marrying Dad didn’t make you better than the rest of us. She said you thought you were better than us because of your money. She said you needed to be put in your place.”
I understood that sentence was probably meant, at least partly, to shift some of the blame onto Eleanor.
