They had turned my home, the safest thing I owned, into a threat held over my head.

And the moment I understood that, I understood the answer, cleanly and completely: if they were going to treat my house as a weapon against me, I would simply remove the weapon from the equation.

You cannot be locked out of a house that no longer exists to be locked out of.

You cannot be controlled with a home that has been sold.

Rachel understood it before I finished the sentence.