The money cleared the custodian bank’s records officially that Monday.
Diane filed the civil confirmation paperwork on Tuesday. On Wednesday afternoon, she sent me the completed documents with a short note.
Cleanest resolution I’ve seen in nineteen years. Well done.
My parents’ financial adviser, the one who most likely gave them that bank threshold number, hired his own attorney the week after the gala. He’s now the subject of a licensing board investigation that Diane’s office referred to the state.
That’s a different story. In a different room. On a different timeline.
I’ve made the deliberate choice to let it move at its own pace, instead of spending energy I need for other things.
Katherine Marsh’s office also filed a separate criminal referral with the state’s financial crimes unit about the forged memo. Restitution doesn’t erase a forgery. That matter is still under review.
Which means the story my parents told the bank, about standard co-trustee authorization, is now being retold to people with subpoena power. And a lot less patience for vagueness than I showed at that Easter dinner.
Trip’s four-thousand-two-hundred-dollar wire became its own matter once Marcus’s report was certified and filed. He hired an attorney the week after the gala too.
Three months later, my mother called me. A brief, careful phone call.
She told me Sutton was “reassessing the engagement timeline.”
It’s the kind of sentence that says everything and nothing at the same time.
I still don’t know exactly what I feel about Sutton.
I’m working out the line between accountability and satisfaction. They’re not the same thing. Even when they show up at the same moment.
Sutton is twenty-two years old. She didn’t plan the transfers. She didn’t forge the memo. But she took the money without asking where it came from, and she stood on a stage and thanked our parents for it.
Some days, I think about the little girl who used to crawl into my bed during thunderstorms.
Some days, I think about the woman who looked up Beckett on LinkedIn and laughed.
Both of them are my sister.
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