I Married My Best Friend’s Grandfather For Money

and does not – does not – distinguish between legitimate and otherwise.”

“How much.”

“It doesn’t matter how much.”

“Rick. How much.”

He looked at me a long time.

“Forty-one million dollars in the principal trust. Closer to sixty if you count the secondary holdings.”

I made a sound. It wasn’t a laugh. It was the noise a body makes when a number too big to continue reading …