“I know what it is. Sign it.”
“What is this money for?”
Karen’s face twisted. “Richard has a problem. A gambling problem. If I don’t cover his debts, certain people will be very unhappy.”
“Karen, I can’t keep-”
“You can.” Karen leaned forward, eyes blazing. “And you will, unless you want me to tell Mila what you really think of her. Unless you want me to make sure she never visits you again.”
Grandma’s face crumpled. “Please don’t do this.”
“Sign the check.”
The video ended with Grandma’s trembling hand picking up the pen.
I sat in the darkness of William’s hidden room with tears streaming down my face.
Karen had not just stolen money. She had terrorized an old woman for over a decade.
And now I had proof. All of it.
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I spent the next three days in that hidden room watching video after video.
The pattern was always the same. Karen would arrive smiling. She would ask for money, sometimes demanding, sometimes guilt-tripping, sometimes threatening. And Grandma would give in every single time.
Video 42, 2019: Karen forging Grandma’s signature on a bank transfer.
“She won’t remember anyway,” she muttered to someone off camera. Richard, probably.
Video 67, 2021: Karen screaming at Grandma for hiding money.
“I know you have more. Where is it?”
Video 89, 2022: Karen counting cash she had found in a drawer.
“Stupid old woman, keeping money like it’s the Depression.”
I totaled the amounts mentioned across all the videos. Conservative estimate: over two million dollars stolen, extorted, and taken from a woman who was too afraid and too in love with her daughter to fight back.
But the most devastating video was the last one. Number 147, dated one week before Grandma went to the hospital.
