“Yes. And I’d like to show you something.”
I opened my phone.
The previous afternoon, after Daniel started demanding my money, I had activated the voice recorder.
I hadn’t planned to use it against him. I simply wanted to remember exactly what he had said, because I could barely believe it.
Now his voice filled the living room.
“If you don’t leave me your entire fortune, I’ll put you in a nursing home and make sure you never see your grandchildren again.”
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Nobody spoke.
Daniel’s face turned white.
“Dad, you recorded me?”
“Yes.”
“How could you do that to your own son?”
I almost laughed.
“How could you threaten your own father?”
One officer asked Daniel to sit down.
The other spoke privately with the nursing home employees.
They confirmed that Daniel had contacted their facility several times, claiming I was becoming forgetful and incapable of caring for myself.
