Chapter 27

Approaching the entrance to my sister’s bank moments later, the security guards at the gate thought of me as an influential customer and rushed to open the gate ajar without hesitating or asking any sort of question.

I could even recall one bowing to me, though I believed he was eventually disappointed when I later left without giving him a tip. It was when I pressed a button on the key to lock the SUV that I realized the Marine Brothers Society ring was still on the little finger on my right hand. I remembered pulling it off and flinging it on the bed before I entered the real bathroom, but now it shone on my little finger as I walked slowly to the ATM machine. 

Waiting in the queue for my turn, I kept thinking about everything that had happened to me in the past few months, weeks, and hours. I found it hard to believe that I was the owner of all the money in the glove compartment of the S