Chapter Fifty: Jackie
JACKIE

Neil was shady after her father left town. He would not pick her calls, would not show up to any meeting that she proposed. Jackie had the distinct feeling her father had something to do with his newfound reticence. She had rented a car, and even though she could easily have afforded a car with the funds at her disposal, buying a car seemed too lavish a thing to do. Living as she had in school, basically out of a suitcase, working at a bar on weekends, just so she would not have to rely in her father's money, she had grown accustomed to being economical.

It was one of the things Joaquin disliked the most about her. He lamented her attitude quite often. 'Why have all that fucking money if you are not going to use it, huh?'

'It is blood money. Isn't mine.' She would always tell him. And Joaquin would always shake his head in disbelief.

Now even those memories were tainted.

She drove the rental to her former house, which they had once thought of as theirs. Where her mother died
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