Stacked plastic chairs lined one wall, and a children’s coloring table occupied a corner.
Paige remained with me.
Heather unlocked her phone.
“I lent Seth the money last spring,” she said. “His truck needed a replacement engine, and he couldn’t afford the repairs.”
I remembered the incident.
Seth had been furious about the repair costs and borrowed my car twice while his truck was in the shop.
He’d claimed most of his savings had gone toward the engine.
“I gave him sixty-four hundred dollars,” Heather continued. “He promised to start paying me back once he caught up on his other bills.”
“Did he?”
“He paid me two hundred dollars once. Then he stopped.”
Heather glanced down.
“I needed the money back, Natalie. Daycare was eating up most of my paycheck. Colin pays his share of the children’s expenses, but I still have rent, groceries, and everything else.”
