For Six Months After I Buried My Husband and Both My Children, My Family Sent Cheerful Group-Chat Messages and a Party Invitation as if Nothing Had Happened — Then My Name Hit the News Attached to $18.7 Million, and Suddenly Every One of Them Remembered My Number

And once I could see it, there was nothing left to rage about.

You do not rage at the weather.

You just come in out of it, and shut the door, and lock it, and that is what the second document was.

Not revenge.

Just a lock, on a door, that should have been locked a very long time ago.

Chapter 14 — The Cease-and-Desist

It was a certified legal notice, prepared and signed by my attorney — Adrian’s sister, Diane.

“This is a formal cease-and-desist order,” I said, and I held it out to my father.