The Envelope That Changed Everything

days later, she called me back.

Her voice had changed. Less sharp. More grim.

“Lakeland,” she said, “it’s exactly what you suspected. And it’s worse.”

I stood in my office at work, the door closed, my heart beating slow and heavy.

“How much worse?” I asked.

“He siphoned sixty thousand dollars,” she said. “Over three years. From a cancer patient’s medical continue reading …