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“I’m not aware of any of that. I know that Eddie told me he needed money to pay bills and medical expenses. I offered to pay them for him and he said he’d rather have the cash and decide how to split it on his own. Everything deposited in this account is a wire transfer from my other account and I can prove it.”
“You don’t need to prove anything to them,” Duke said. “Your name is on that account, not theirs. They have no legal recourse and you know it.”
She’d been annoyed that Duke had called Hailey and asked her. But he’d done it when she’d been there and the call was on a speaker. The balance of the account went to Hadley.
“I can get a lawyer,” Cheryl said.
“That isn’t necessary,” Mandy said. “We told you all of this. If Ms. Breaton wants to give you the funds, she can sign off now and we’ll issue the check to you. Or she can write a check to you.”
“No,” Hadley said. She looked at Cheryl and Connie. “I loved your son and he hurt me. He cheated on me and he took my money when it seems he didn’t need it after everything I did to care for him. Which you all know because I was at his place the whole time.”
“You’re lying,” Connie said.
“I’m not. Other people know and it doesn’t matter because you’re going to believe what you want about me.”
Maybe Eddie’s parents gave him money, but they didn’t bring him to appointments. They didn’t come to his apartment and help him when he couldn’t get around and even make a meal for himself. They didn’t do anything, not even visit half the time.
It’s not like she thought Eddie would have lied about any of that since she spent pretty much every day with him or some part of it. She’d know if his family was there for him and they weren’t.
“You don’t know anything,” Cheryl said. “We did our part when we could.”
This was getting out of hand. She stood up. She didn’t like the scene that was drawing attention. “I’m sorry if that is what you thought was your part. It wasn’t enough for Eddie and if you knew him well enough you’d know that.” Or maybe they did know him well enough and it was her that was the idiot that fell for his helpless behavior and needing to be coddled.
“You don’t need to apologize or explain anything,” Duke said.
“I don’t, but I’m going to. This is just sad that it’s happening. You have no idea what I did for him and went through while he was hurt. I went in debt helping him and being there. This money is what I gave him and he obviously didn’t use it for bills as he’d said.”
What she didn’t want to say was that the bulk of it was spent after he was back on his feet and should have returned to work but kept delaying. He was out living like he won the lotto. She supposed in his mind he had.
He was using her money to go on trips and party like she’d heard he was. Parties at his house with his friends. Huge takeout food bills not to mention clothing and other items he didn’t need while he was home.
He had the money to give back to her but yet lied one more time and she sat back and accepted it.
She wasn’t going to take it anymore.
“You have no idea what that money was used for,” Connie said.
“I know enough.” She turned to Mandy. “Is there a way to call security? I’d just like to get this over with and go back to my life.”
“I’ll gladly call security,” Mandy said. Mandy picked her phone up, but Cheryl and Connie left the minute the guard moved over.
They finished the paperwork, she got her check and then Duke and she left the bank and started their drive home.
They’d get some lunch out of town because she wanted to get away faster than ever before.
“Sorry—”
“Don’t apologize again,” he said.
She laughed. “Hard habit to break. But I will thank you.”
“For what?”
“For not jumping in and being a knight when I know you wanted to.”
“I did say a few things.”
“I expected no less,” she said. “But it was the exact amount I needed.”
