He Changed the Locks on My Parents’ Anniversary Gift

didn’t step in they’d lose it.”

Mom made a sound behind us, one of those hurt sounds that comes out before words do.

Claire shut her eyes.

“I never saw any trust papers,” she went on. “He said there weren’t any, that it was basically in the family and you were traveling all the time and somebody had to be practical.”

I looked at her then.

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