The deposit was there, sure. But the account balance was still thousands lower than it should have been.
I scrolled down and found several transfers had been made over the past few months.
I noticed money missing from our joint account.
“That can’t be right.”
The knot in my stomach tightened as I checked the numbers again.
There was no mistake. Thousands of dollars were missing.
***
That night, I slid my laptop toward Troy while he was watching the news.
“Did you move money out of checking?”
He barely looked up from the TV. “I paid the bills.”
“How much?”
There was no mistake.
“A couple of thousand. It evens out.”
“Where?” I turned the screen toward him.
“Troy, this is a lot. Where is it all going?”
He rubbed his forehead, eyes still on the television. “The usual… things for the house, bills. I move money around sometimes, you know that. It’ll come back.”
