Eva moved into the boys' house right after Stan's death.
Everyone tiptoed around her. Instead of grief, she was a spectre of undefined fury, strung too tight to bear for more than a few minutes. I could not go near her.
Every morning, before anyone woke up, Tommy went online and into Stan's email to erase and rearrange things. He enjoyed the dirty emails from the expensive Chinese hooker demanding money. There were emails from his nieces who wanted hush money for the sexual abuse. Solicitation emails from online sex sites that Stan frequented. Kinky bills to pay. Credit card bills to pay and erase. Emails from Goodyear seeking retribution for all the money he stole and accounts he rearranged. Tommy discovered Stan's life of sexual depravity and lies.
Tommy did this because Stan asked him to. In his moment of death, he suddenly felt aggrieved that Eva would find out about all this. He hadn't planned on dying so fast that he wouldn't be able to clean things up himself. He had felt that Tommy wouldn't judge him, that Tommy would clean it all up.
And Tommy did. He cleaned up real good. In the name of protecting Eva, he discovered Stan's secret bank accounts and, having his usernames, passwords, and security questions, he methodically transferred to himself all the money from accounts that Eva knew nothing about. Then he quietly closed the accounts. A clean job, no one would ever know.
He also discovered that Stan had set up automatic payment on the credit card. So Tommy helped himself to Stan's credit and debit cards.
Eva, meanwhile, considered the boys her Godsend. They were sheltering her, feeding her, driving her. They were listening to her, filing health insurance papers, life insurance (they were ace at this), getting death certificates at the U.S. Consulate, and, helped her rewrite her will online at legalzip.com, making themselves her executors and her witnesses. They all trooped into the consulate to sign, and Eva felt lucky to be so taken care of. How easy could this be.
In a few months she would never say their names again, calling them only, the fags, the scum, the scammers.
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