I laughed.
The sound rolled up from my throat, soft yet loud enough to cut through every other noise in the room.
Peggy's grin froze right on her face.
Helen grumbled. "She's lost her mind."
"Randal." I stopped laughing and pulled my phone out of my pocket. "Do you know how much you're actually worth?"
Randal snapped. "Are you out of your damn—"
"Just ten cents." I tapped to start an audio clip and cranked the speaker volume all the way up.
A calm, professional woman's voice poured out of the phone. "Ms. Duren, this is Peggy, top agent at Huntshark Debt Collection Company. We've gotten your fifty-thousand-dollar deposit. Within three months, we'll leave the target broke with nothing left to his name."
Dead silence fell over the living room at once.
Only the ticking second hand on
