“Go ahead.”
“I will not buy Khloe and Tyler a trip to Greece. I will not surrender our honeymoon. And I will not continue paying family expenses simply because you believe I should.”
Her expression changed.
“What does that mean?”
“It means the financial arrangements we’ve had need to end.”
Dad looked up.
“Now, hold on.”
I turned toward him.
“Dad, I’ve paid $41,760 toward family expenses in the last eighteen months.”
He stared.
Mom frowned.
“That can’t be right.”
“I have the records.”
Khloe looked uncomfortable.
“Why are you counting everything?”
“Because I needed to understand what I’d been paying.”
Mom shook her head.
“Family doesn’t calculate every little kindness.”
I looked at her.
“Then why do you keep calculating what I still owe you?”
She stopped speaking.
Daniel stood beside me.
“Lorraine, Paul, this conversation is over for tonight.”
Mom looked at him.
“Daniel, surely you understand that families help one another.”
“I do,” he answered. “But I don’t believe helping gives someone permission to use another person’s credit card without consent.”
He glanced toward Tyler.
“And I don’t believe a wedding is the place to settle an argument about it.”
Tyler nodded slowly.
“I agree.”
