I turned toward the attorney sitting in my living room.
“Are you representing my children?”
He confirmed that he was.
“Then this conversation is over. I’ll be contacting my own attorney.”
That day, Sarah left without hugging me.
Jake also prepared to leave.
I stopped him.
“Tell me one more thing. Where is your mother now?”
His eyes filled with tears.
“On the other side of town. She was afraid to see you for a long time. She thought you blamed her.”
The following day, I met Linda.
We held each other and cried for a long time.
She told me Robert had never accused her of stealing. My children had simply tried to get rid of her because she had overheard too much.
She also admitted that she had asked Jake to help me, but she hadn’t realized how far her son’s deception had gone.
Over the following weeks, I worked with an independent attorney to review my property documents. An independent medical evaluation found no grounds to declare me incapable of managing my own affairs.
