Their names are on the deed!

Everyone here knows it!”

Eric did not raise his voice to meet hers.

He simply opened the blue folder wider and drew out a stack of certified documents and held them up where the nearest guests could see the seals and the signatures, and he spoke to the crowd rather than to her, which was somehow worse for her than if he had shouted.

“Steven and his wife were granted a conditional tenancy in this property, held by Sterling Holdings,” he said, clearly, patiently, a man reading out simple facts.