Chapter 26 - David’s LetterDavid wrote from his court-mandated financial accountability program.
Not prison.
Not exile.
A structured consequence.
The letter was six pages.
He did not begin with:
I’m sorry.
He began:
I kept thinking the house was already mine because someday you would die. Writing that sentence makes me sick.
I stopped reading.
Then continued.
He admitted resentment.
He thought I had more space and money than I needed.
He thought he had waited long enough to become secure.
He thought because I had always helped him, help was something he could convert into entitlement.
Then:
Ashley did not make me do this. I let her say things I wanted to hear.
That mattered.
For months I feared he would spend the rest of his life making Ashley the villain.
He did not.
When you said you would start looking tomorrow, I felt relieved. I did not think about what it meant for you to leave the place Dad built with you. I only thought the obstacle had moved.
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I cried at that line.
Because it was honest.
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