Chapter 5 #3
“She thinks that grandda is gone and he left it to me. I’m so glad he’s still around so that I can tell him what Grannie had done.” Kayce asked if it explained where the money had come from. “I’m getting there. Hold on.” She read on.
“I’ve always been lucky when it came to winning money.
And I used that luck in having you and someone special that will be with you through all time to have yourself a nest egg.
I never told your grandda about it, so he’d not let it slip to the boys.
Your father would have beaten him to death for the money that I’ve put aside for you.
“I won three big payoffs. And of course, I took the cash for it all at one time. That way, the taxes have been paid on it from the start. You’ll find the receipts there with the money, so that you have proof that I paid on it.
I’d still not tell anyone that you have the money.
Just bring it out when you need it so that no one knows.
It’s none of their business anyway.” Kayce cleared his throat before speaking.
“Your grannie won all that money and put it aside. I wonder if there was a time that she needed it but didn’t spend it?” Molly said that she didn’t know, but didn’t have too much more to read. “Then read on, my love, so that when I get home, we can bathe in the money.”
She laughed and read on ahead without telling Kayce. As soon as she got to the end of the letter, she told him what it had said. She was fighting tears badly by the time she was able to get out what she’d told her.
“Grannie said that there was never a time when they needed the money more than I would. And that the reason there is so much is because she wanted us, my someone special, to have it for when we redid the house. She said she thinks that there is close to seventy million dollars here with all the lottery money that she won.” She blew her nose and looked at the money still in the wall.
“I wonder how she was able to get it into the wall without grandda knowing. I mean, there would have been a big hole in the drywall for her to have put this much money in there.”
She found the receipts for paying the taxes on all that she’d won and put them with the letter for when Kayce came home.
Even though she’d told him all about it, she knew he was going to be as surprised as she was for when he saw it.
There were a lot of rolls of cash just sitting on top of a wire roll.
And more in the wall still yet to be pulled out. That’s when she looked around the room.
“Most of the room is finished. They were pulling this drywall out to make room for the dressers that we wanted to put in here. The floor looks fantastic.” He asked her about the fireplace.
“It’s an ivory color, and I believe it’s going to keep us warm at night.
It’s a lot bigger than I thought it was when we first looked at it.
The drywall on either side of it has been taken out and widened for us. ”
She kept staring at the money, and when Kayce said he was coming home, she put her cell phone down and stared at it all.
Never would she have believed, even with Parker telling them that it was quite a bit, that there was that much money in the walls.
When she’d pointed it out to them a week ago, Molly had honestly forgotten about it because of the news about the baby.
Getting up to look out over the front driveway when Kayce pulled in, she put her hand on her belly.
“We’re not going to spoil you even though we can. You’ll have a happy childhood because you’ll be loved by the two of us.” She could hear Kayce taking the stairs two at a time to get to her. “I love you, sweet baby.”
They decided to do just what Grannie told her to do and take it out a little at a time. There was no point in flaunting the money around, but she would tell her Pop-pop. He would love the fact that his wife had saved them from a lot of rainy days.
Taking all the money out of the wall and off the roll, they put it in a large tote and put it in Kayce’s office. Dragging it down the stairs had been funny for the two of them. It had weighed a ton, and she couldn’t believe that they’d had to use a larger tote to put it in.
Deciding to leave it out in the open like it was nothing but another tote of books, she thought that no one would wonder about it, so it would be safe. Kayce said they’d have to talk to the workers who had found it so that they’d not say anything to anyone.
“I don’t think they will. That would be bad for them to know secrets about the families that they work for and tell on them.
I can see that they’d have a lot of stories about people and their finds in the walls.
” She said that they’d been looking for wiring when they’d removed the old drywall, and that was how they’d found it.
“I think we’re going to be set up for the rest of our lives with what we have.
We’ll invest some of it so that it doesn’t run dry anytime soon.
I’ve gotten pretty good at investing since I went away to college. ”
“That sounds like a good plan.” They decided to have dinner in tonight, and that was fun too.
With the kitchen nearly finished, the refrigerator had been put in as well as the stove and oven.
The island didn’t have any chairs around it as yet, but they made do by standing around it.
She couldn’t believe what a couple of weeks’ difference had made in the whole house.
She couldn’t wait until it was finished, however.
“We’ll need to count it at some point, I suppose.
Just to make sure that we don’t spend it all the way down to nothing without thinking about it. ”
“I believe your grannie might have known just how much was in there when she said seventy million. That’s a lot of money to win from lottery tickets.
But she did say that she’d won a couple of big payoffs.
” Molly said that she remembered once her grannie winning a scratch off when she’d been about ten.
“I guess she was right in saying that she’d been lucky with numbers.
I wish I could have gotten to know her. She sounds like my grannie a great deal. ”
They talked about the money for the rest of the evening.
Tomorrow, when the construction crew came back to finish the bedroom, they’d talk to them.
Kayce was still waiting for some applicants to fill out the positions in his office, but he was ready to go.
As soon as the building was finished, he was going to be working on building up his clientele.
She didn’t think he’d have any trouble. He was a good man and a better doctor than she’d ever known.
He was happy to be able to do his own hours and work at his own offices. She was happy for him as well.