I Paid for an Elderly Man’s Bread… The Next Morning, a Motorcade of Official Vehicles Stormed My House

Timothy winced. “That wasn’t my idea.”

“I know. But you’re still related to a man who turns everything into a full-blown movie scene.”

“For the record,” Timothy said, “this isn’t even in Dad’s top five strangest ideas.”

I laughed despite myself.

Timothy and I didn’t fall in love quickly or easily. We talked—a lot. We disagreed, figured out what mattered, and what didn’t. I told him what Walter’s stunt had cost me that month, and he listened without guilt or money talk.