When my husband Darren found the wallet, he acted like he’d just won the lottery.
We were walking home from the grocery store on a cold Thursday evening when he spotted it lying near the curb beside our apartment building. It was thick, worn brown leather, bulging at the seams.
Darren picked it up and opened it right there under the streetlight.
His eyes widened.
“Oh my God,” he whispered.
Inside were stacks of cash. Hundreds. Maybe thousands.
He let out a low whistle, then grinned at me like a teenager who’d gotten away with something dangerous.
“Jackpot,” he said. “Finders keepers.”
I stared at him, waiting for the joke.
It never came.
“Darren,” I said carefully, “someone probably lost that ten minutes ago.”
He shrugged and shoved the wallet into his jacket pocket.
“Well, they shouldn’t have.”
“Look at all that cash. Somebody could be desperate for it.”
“And now we’re desperate less,” he replied.
I stopped walking.
“You can’t seriously keep it.”
He turned, irritation flashing across his face. “Why not? Nobody saw me pick it up.”
“That doesn’t make it right.”
His expression hardened immediately.
“We’re behind on rent, Emily. My truck needs repairs. You’ve been complaining about medical bills for months. But suddenly you want to play saint?”
“I want to do the right thing.”
“And I want one lucky break.”
The argument followed us all the way home.
By the time we got inside, Darren was furious. He dumped the cash onto the kitchen table and started talking about everything we could finally pay off.
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