Chapter 47

Ate dinner, Arabella retreated to her room, leaving Delilah and Shawn alone in the living room. Delilah lingered at the

bh, not in any rush to clear the plates and silverware. Instead, she recounted her kitchen conversation with

thesa kwahy to Shawn.

tok Awa’s under the impression that we’re up to our eyeballs in debt,” Delilah sald, propping her elbows on the tabs and furrowing her brow in thought. Though their daughter hadn’t pressed the issue further, Delilah’s intuition told ber that Mira bait certainly gotten the wrong end of the stick.

Shawn glanced at her. “Surely it’s not that bad. She just happened to run into the accountant downstairs.”

Delilah shook her head. “No, the first thing out of her mouth was whether we had visitors today.”

“You might be reading too much into it. She was probably just making conversation. Besides, Mira Isn’t the type to get worked up over such things” Shawn said nonchalantly.

right,” Delilah sighed, then her eyes lit up as an idea struck her. “What If we gave her another credit card? That way,

actually found the idea quite reasonable, but added, “The last black card I gave her, she hasn’t

just withdraw some cash and hand it to

her to school on the first day of school,

the idea

use mobile payments.

shake of his

forget about Messenger!” Delilah slapped her forehead, stood up, and fetched her phone from the living

ages ago, and Delilah quickly located her daughter. While opening the payment panel she asked, “Shawn, how much do you think I should transfer to Mira? Half a

mouth twitched at the corners, “Let’s keep it

of modesty and not flaunting wealth. Even their foster daughter was unaware of their real financial status, believing they were just an average family. Of course, anyone paying close attention would realize that everything in their home was

rolled her eyes at her husband’s comment. “And were you this concerned about

cleared his throat, pretending not to hear his wife’s pointed

suggested, “How about I just transfer ter thousand? That’s modest enough,

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