ALEX.
I stared at my phone again, hoping and praying that my eyes were lying to me. The balance didn’t change. I refreshed the app once, then twice and then three times.
The numbers didn’t change. My balance was almost empty.
“No,” I whispered. “No, no, no…”
My hands began to shake. That money was everything I had left. The little safety net I had been holding onto, the one thing that made me believe I could leave quietly and start over somewhere far away from Derek.
And now it was gone.
I scrolled through the transaction history, my chest tightening with every second. There it was. A transfer I didn’t recognize and never authorized. It was a large one, cleanly removed.
My stomach dropped, and I felt my chest tighten painfully.
“He did this,” I muttered, my voice breaking. “Derek d
