Five Hundred Dollars for Her Silence
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The phone buzzed against the kitchen table while I was scraping the last of the risotto onto Daniel's plate. I almost didn't look. We had a rule about screens at dinner, one I'd insisted on for years, and I felt the small hypocrisy of glancing down at my own.
It was a payment request. Five hundred dollars, from a name I didn't recognize. A woman. My thumb hovered, half-ready to dismiss it as one of those scams that slip past the spam filter and prey on the distracted. Then I read the note attached to it, the little line of text people usually fill with pizza emojis or rent reminders.
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