Marcus grabbed his phone and called the bank immediately. I stayed in the nursery doorway while he argued with someone from the fraud department, insisting there had been a mistake. There hadn’t. For months, Marcus had been routing most of his salary into an account he shared with Sandra, then transferring money back into our household account only when necessary. The bank had flagged a recent attempt to move several thousand dollars into another account in Sandra’s name because the activity no longer matched their normal pattern. That was why my missing paycheck had caused everything to unravel so quickly: without my salary covering the household expenses, Marcus no longer had enough money moving through the account to hide what he had been doing.
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