My Mother-in-Law Told My One-Year-Old Daughter Not to Become Like Her Mother. By Midnight, We Learned Who Had Really Been Living Off Someone Else.

took her money.”

“I used money that was sitting there doing nothing.”

“It belonged to her.”

“She was fourteen.”

“And now she’s thirty-six.”

Then Rebecca asked:

“Why did you repay Paige and not Lauren?”

There was a pause.

Vivian’s recorded voice answered:

“Because Paige was going to find out.”

My stomach dropped.

But the recording continued.

Rebecca said, “And Lauren?”

Vivian laughed softly.

“Lauren trusted me.”

The real Vivian reached for the recorder.

Paige pulled it away.

“No.”

On the recording, Rebecca asked one final question.

“And the $120,000