The “plan” she described that night made me laugh and cry at once, because it started with something small and petty and satisfying — the thing we’d place at his door at dawn.
But the real plan was much bigger, and entirely, beautifully legal.
Barbara was going to stop funding the life Eric used to humiliate us.
And she was going to make very sure her granddaughter was taken care of instead.
PART 3
What we placed at Eric’s door at dawn was, I’ll admit, the pettiest and most satisfying part, and Barbara’s idea entirely.
