I shrugged. Enough to kill someone for? Yes. But as people will whack each other over sneakers or an iPod, there's an argument that adding zeros doesn't constitute motivation. Money is neither a necessary or sufficient condition for murder, and two million dollars is not as much as it sounds.
‘Ellen,’ I said, firmly. My beer was almost done and so was I. ‘I came up here because—’
‘It's the house,’ she said.
‘The house?’ I said, confused. Part of my head was still processing having revisited my own property, and for a moment I thought that's what she was talking about. ‘Your house? What about it?’
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