At the family gathering, my nephew m0cked me: “Mom said you never contributed anything here.” I smiled and replied, “Good. Then she won’t miss the ₱290,000 I send every month for your house.”

a loan application using Isabel’s name?”

The entire family looked at me.

Three weeks before the reunion, Paolo and I had received a phone call from the bank.

Someone had attempted to secure a loan worth ₱8.6 million using me as the guarantor.

The collateral was Regina’s house.

The same house I had been paying for over the past several years.

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