My Stepmother Claimed I Was Not Stable In Court Until The Judge Removed His Glasses

I let her believe the performance was working.

And every night after everyone went home, I sat at my kitchen table with a laptop and a cup of black coffee, and I traced every dollar she had touched.

Here is what Diane did not know about me: she thought I was a mid-level analyst at an accounting firm, which was technically accurate but deeply incomplete.continue reading …