Amy Tredgett

The Settlement

It wasn’t as though I didn’t need the money. I had university debts and a house loan to pay off, and 55k a year could only stretch so far. But it was hard to look at the cheque with anything other than disdain when it had come as a result of my mother’s death. I believe the term they used was a wrongful death settlement. To me, it was a get out of jail free card.