I stared at him.
“That’s what you care about? My voice?”
He stepped closer.
“I said we would talk at home.”
I pulled out my phone and showed him the insurance cancellation notice.
“Why did you stop paying the premiums?”
His eyes moved across the page.
For a moment, he said nothing.
Then he muttered:
“I had a temporary cash-flow problem.”
“Where did the money go?”
He didn’t answer.
I showed him the bank transfers.
“Seventeen thousand dollars, Curtis. Where did it go?”
His face changed.
And that was when I knew.
He wasn’t surprised that I had found the transactions.
He was frightened that I had.
Part 10: The Truth About the Insurance
Curtis finally sat down.
He looked at the floor.
“I made some bad investments.”
“What investments?”
“Online trading. A few accounts. I thought I could recover the money.”
“How much?”
He didn’t answer.
“How much did you lose?”
