overturned, throwing me onto the grass.
I lay completely still, barely able to breathe.
Then I heard footsteps.
Maria was coming down the hill.
“Margaret?” she called.
I immediately closed my eyes.
She stopped beside me and took out her phone.
“It’s done,” she whispered. “I pushed her. I don’t think she’s breathing.”
My blood turned cold.
Then she said something that shocked me even more.
“Richard, you promised that once she’s gone, the money will be ours. Michael knows nothing, understand? Nothing!”
Richard?
The man Maria had introduced as
her cousin?
And my son wasn’t involved?
Suddenly, everything became clear.
Maria and Richard had been stealing from me. And now they wanted me gone before I discovered the truth.
After she walked away, I reached for the small emergency phone hidden inside my coat.
“David,” I whispered when he answered. “She did it. She thinks I’m dead.”
“Don’t move, Margaret. Help is coming.”
Twenty minutes later, an ambulance and the police arrived.
David had already collected evidence of the forged signatures and suspicious financial transfers. My emergency phone had
