My Daughter Reacted Strongly When I Refused To Give Her The Money From Selling My Farm. My Older Son Took Her Side And Crossed A Line. Twenty Minutes Later, Both Of Them Regretted What They’d Done.

My heart started beating faster.

I knew exactly where this conversation was heading, and a sense of alarm began to grow in my chest. Judy was the biggest gossip in the area, and she had clearly seen all the movement of the construction company around my property. “She told me you sold the farm.

Mom, is that true?”

Patricia was now looking at me intently with that expression she put on when she was a teenager and questioned me about whether I had found anything suspicious in her room. I couldn’t deny the truth to my own daughter, especially when it was obvious she already knew, so I nodded slowly. “Yes, Patricia,” I said.

“I sold the property a few weeks ago.”

My daughter’s eyes lit up in a way I had never seen before, as if she had won the lottery. “Oh, Mom, what wonderful news,” she exclaimed. “And for how much did you sell it?

It must have been for a good amount, right?”

Something in her tone of voice made me very uncomfortable. It was not the reaction I had expected from a daughter worried about her mother. She didn’t ask me how I felt about selling her father’s land, or if it had been difficult to make that decision, or if I needed emotional support.

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