Page 94 of Look at Her and Die

What did surprise me was Posy saying, “Your mother is suing you.”

An hour later I was at the bank by myself, and I was depositing a check into my account.

The nosy bitch behind the counter kept glancing at me over her counter, eyes wide.

I tapped my foot instead of my fingernails, waiting for her to get on with the show.

She said, “Oh, I’ll be right back.”

I crossed my arms over the other and looked around the bank, wondering if maybe I should find a different bank while I was at it.

It’d be nice to walk into a random bank in Dallas and them not give me a second look.

There were thousands of millionaires in Dallas. One more wouldn’t make them blink…

Plus, I wouldn’t have to deal with whatever bullshit was heading my way at that moment.

“Ma’am,” the woman said. “We can’t take this check.”

My brows rose. “Why not?”

“Because you don’t have that kind of money to back it up,” someone muttered from the partition two down.

I glanced her way and saw a girl I’d graduated with years ago.

I thought about fighting it but then decided…fuck it.

“Okay,” I said. “Give that check back, then. I’ll take it to my other bank.”

Her brows rose. “We can’t return fraudulent checks.”

I pinched the bridge of my nose.

“You do realize, right, that the check is in my name?” I asked.

“Yes, we do,” the man, who had to be the branch manager, said.

“And you do realize, right, that if I leave, I’m taking a very large account with me?”

There was another snort from my asshole classmate.

“Ma’am…” the branch manager said in a patronizing tone. “Please leave.”

I pulled out my phone, then pulled up my bank account.

When it was up, I turned it around to her and said, “That’s my bank account right now. In the other bank.”

The manager’s eyes went wide.

“Oh…”

“Now, give me my check back,” I ordered. “And let’s get my account closed down while I’m here. Where’s your office?”

When I got home, I was exhausted, and Kent and Anders agreed with me.

Neither one of them had much to say as we drove to the ranch.

Kent, instead of going inside, went to the barn where he could see Posy working and picked up a shovel.

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