Chapter 12

After visiting the solicitor that afternoon I was shocked and I came back home and went straight to Aunt Beth’s house.

I was too shocked to show any kind of reaction at the lawyer’s office. It’s unbelievable, it is.

I told them I had told the lawyer that I thought he had made a big mistake but he showed me the papers and said that my father had already bought the house and had left a substantial sum of money. The lawyer also told me that he had won a prize for his publication at the university a few years ago and that he had saved the rest of his pension from work. Though I just don’t know how he did it. I sank heavily into the chair.

My father had saved it for their retirement and he couldn’t even enjoy its benefit I was happy as well as sad.

“You don’t think that Marc would have given the money to him.” I asked Aunt Beth not sure whether I should doubt my dad’s savings but the amount was quite huge.

Aunt Beth said flatly. “Your father is from a differ