Chapter 112 TIT FOR TAT

“What are you going to do?” Jasper asked. “You will have to find a way to pay him or convince him that you would pay after the restriction is lifted from the account.”

We had gotten back to the house and mom had gone to see her friend in the neighborhood.

“I am doing nothing of such,” I said.

“What would you do?” he asked.

“I don’t know yet,” I said. “But I am not going to give him one third of my money. No one is going to get a dime from me.”

Jasper was silent.

I thought about how get out of the judge’s trap, but nothing seemed to lead to a positive end. I know if I don’t do what he wants, he will really mess me up; but what was I to do?

I know I don’t want him to get a dime from that money—and he is not going to get a dime—but what do I have to do to get out of the trap?

I considered making it public, but I knew at the end it would be his word against mine, just the way he had said it.

“The problem is that he wants the money now. He is not even giving me the chance to get the money