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I just stood there, staring at her. There it was. The complete, twisted logic. It didn\u2019t matter that she had spent it. It didn\u2019t matter that Andrew was living off my savings. It didn\u2019t matter that my marriage had withered away from a lack of trust. To her, the victory was simply that Elena hadn\u2019t touched it.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou stole from me,\u201d I whispered.<\/p>\n

My mother put her hand to her chest. \u201cDon\u2019t you dare talk to me like that.\u201d \u201cYou stole three hundred thousand dollars from me.\u201d \u201cI gave you life!\u201d \u201cAnd I gave you my future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her face hardened. \u201cDon\u2019t be ungrateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

That word made me laugh. A hideous laugh. Almost a bark. \u201cUngrateful?\u201d \u201cAll of this will be yours too, someday.\u201d \u201cWhen? When Andrew feels like it? When you die? When Elena leaves me because she finally realizes my mother was my true financial wife?\u201d<\/p>\n

My mother slapped my face. Not hard. But enough.<\/p>\n

I stayed completely still. I wasn\u2019t a child anymore. And yet, for a split second, I was. The little boy who listened to stories about thieving women while his own mother built the perfect blueprint to rob him blind.<\/p>\n

Then she said the sentence that destroyed my life: \u201cElena was the only one who didn\u2019t want your money, Matthew.\u201d<\/p>\n

The room went dead silent. My mother regretted it the second it left her mouth. But it was too late. Because that sentence blew open a door that I had kept locked for years.<\/p>\n

Elena had never asked me for luxuries. She had never demanded financial accounts to control me. She had never asked for money for herself. She asked for a joint account. A home. A plan. She asked for trust. And out of fear that she would rob me, I handed everything over to the person who taught me to be afraid in the first place.<\/p>\n

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I walked out of the room without saying a word. Andrew caught up to me in the yard. \u201cDon\u2019t start acting crazy, Matthew. The house is for Mom, too.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked at him. \u201cDid you know?\u201d \u201cMom said you agreed to it.\u201d \u201cTo putting my money in your name?\u201d<\/p>\n

He shrugged. \u201cWell, you make good money.\u201d<\/p>\n

I wanted to hit him. I didn\u2019t. Maybe because, for the first time, I understood that in this family, I wasn\u2019t a son. I was a bank.<\/p>\n

I grabbed the folder and walked out. My mother followed me to the front door. \u201cWhere are you going?\u201d \u201cTo see what I can recover.\u201d \u201cYou\u2019re not going to sue your own mother.\u201d<\/p>\n

I paused. \u201cNo. I\u2019m going to sue the woman who used being my mother to strip me of everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

It hurt her. But not enough.<\/p>\n

I went down to the town center to find a cell signal. I called Elena. It rang several times before she answered. \u201cDo you have it?\u201d<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t speak. She understood immediately. \u201cMatthew.\u201d \u201cIt doesn\u2019t exist.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was a long silence. \u201cNothing?\u201d \u201cShe spent it. On the house. On Andrew. On land. On a commercial property. Everything is in her name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Elena breathed out slowly. \u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n

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