“That doesn’t give you my grandfather’s house.”

“Your grandfather is dead.”

The second time he said it, I heard something new.

Resentment.

Not grief.

Not practicality.

Resentment that a dead man still had boundaries Flynn could not bully.

PART 11 — CORDELIA’S VERSION OF LOYALTY

She arrived the next afternoon carrying two boxes of old company records.

Dropped them in my foyer.