He looked at me.
“Mom, it wasn’t what you think.”
“That sentence usually means it is exactly what I think.”
He rubbed his face.
“I borrowed money.”
“How much?”
Silence.
“How much, Benjamin?”
“About eighty thousand.”
I almost laughed.
Eighty thousand.
After I had just discovered $93,600 in expenses for one year alone.
I looked at Richard.
“That isn’t all of it, is it?”
Richard shook his head.
“No.”
“How much?”
“Three hundred and forty thousand.”
The room seemed to become strangely quiet.
Even the rain had stopped.
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