“That sounds important.”
“It sounds like vultures circling,” she muttered.
Then she added quickly, “But you didn’t hear me say that.”
I pretended I hadn’t.
But I had.
And I felt sorry for her.
She had wealth, comfort, and everything money could buy.
Yet the people closest to her seemed interested only in what she might leave behind.
Then something happened that changed everything.
One afternoon she accidentally left her wallet in my back seat.
I found it after dropping her off.
Without opening it, I carried it back into the house.