The Buyer Derek Chose Was Already On A Watchlist

because family property was just the stuff he felt entitled to first.

“I don’t know,” I said.

I heard one of their kids crying in the background. Not screaming. Overtired crying, the sad little engine of a child whose whole house feels wrong.

Lauren said, very low, “He told me he only sold it because the mortgage was late again.”

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