My sister emptied my bank account and fled to Dubai with her boyfriend, leaving me with unpaid bills and almost nothing left.<\/p>\n
I sat on the kitchen floor, completely devastated, when my nine-year-old daughter, Maya, placed her hand on my shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom, it\u2019s okay. I\u2019ve got this.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought she was simply trying to comfort me.<\/p>\n
For three days, I struggled to recover our money while Maya quietly spent time in her room with her tablet.<\/p>\n
Then my phone rang.<\/p>\n
It was my sister calling from Dubai\u2014and she was screaming.<\/p>\n
\u201cKesha! What did you do? My accounts are frozen!\u201d<\/p>\n
I froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t do anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
She shouted that her boyfriend\u2019s accounts had been frozen too and they were unable to leave the country.<\/p>\n
Then she said something that made my blood run cold:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sent someone after us!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n I looked toward Maya\u2019s bedroom.<\/p>\n Suddenly, her strange confidence three days earlier made sense.<\/p>\n What had my nine-year-old daughter actually done?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My sister emptied my bank account and fled to Dubai with her boyfriend, leaving me with unpaid bills and almost nothing left. I sat on the kitchen floor, completely devastated, when my nine-year-old daughter, Maya, placed her hand on my shoulder. \u201cMom, it\u2019s okay. I\u2019ve got this.\u201d I thought she was simply trying to comfort …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10765"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10768,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10765\/revisions\/10768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wildwondertube.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}