“We can sell this house here and use that to get a bigger apartment,” Shirley suggested.
Worried that my brother would want a share of the money, I asked my mother in secret, and she agreed to move with us and sell the house without Alex knowing.
At the end of my visit, I told Alex to no longer take care of our mother. “Our neighbor will come and take care of her every day until we can decide what to do with her,” I said.
