Roland read silently until his hands began trembling. Odessa had written that she loved him, but she had never forgotten the $23,400 transferred while he controlled her accounts. She had instructed her estate attorney to treat any proven unpaid amount as an advance against whatever Roland would otherwise receive, subject to the estate documents and applicable law. Then she wrote, “Marguerite never asked me for anything. That is precisely why I wanted to leave her something.”
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