We froze when we found Mom sleeping on newspapers beneath a highway overpass. “What happened to your $450,000 house?”

wired to an out-of-state account.

“They planned this,” I said.

Daniel turned the screen toward me. “For at least five months.”

A message recovered from Mom’s abandoned tablet made my stomach twist.

Vanessa had written to Kyle: Once she signs, Claire can scream all she wants. She has no authority, and Mom will never survive a lawsuit.

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