My Daughter Begged Me Not to Get Off the Bus—Minutes Later, My Boyfriend Sent a Photo of My Deed Beside a Contract I Had Never Signed

“Yes.”

A few seconds passed.

Then I heard my daughter.

“Mommy?”

That was when I cried.

PART 6 — The Second Envelope

I did not know what had happened at Mom’s house until Ethan and Margaret told me afterward.

While I was sitting in the office, a gray SUV slowed outside her home.