Nora hurried over with a small sealed box.
Alicia had left me her share of an inheritance from her grandmother.
The amount would clear every loan I owed.
I checked the figure against my name, certain one of them had to be wrong.
A folded note lay beneath the notice.
Nora leaned over my shoulder before I could open it. Her face turned red.
"What the hell!" she shouted.
A folded note
"She left you Grandma's money?"
Nora pointed at the lawyer's letter. Her voice had gone sharp.
"I didn't know. I swear to you, I had no idea."
"Then why did you marry her?"
"It wasn't romantic. You knew that."
"What the hell!"
"I did." Her voice cracked. "And now I can see what you got out of it."
She pressed a hand to her mouth.
"No, I promise, it's not like that."
