The Childhood Invoices
Chapter 05 - The Childhood Invoices
Investigators requested the trust’s old medical files.
Claire expected financial fraud.
She did not expect her childhood memories to become evidence.
One invoice charged for twelve weeks of inpatient rehabilitation when Claire had attended school during that period.
Another billed for a custom mobility device she never owned.
A third listed a private nurse named Rebecca Stone.
No such nurse was licensed in the state.
The address belonged to a storage unit rented by Richard.
The stolen money helped purchase the warehouse where Mason’s company later operated.
Richard often told Mason the building was his first gift to his son.
It had been paid for through false claims tied to Claire’s illness.
Mason left the room and was sick in the garden.
Claire did not follow him.
His horror was real.
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So was the fact that the company benefiting him had been built from resources meant for her care.
Both truths could exist without Claire becoming responsible for comforting him.
