It meant that the thing they were planning to do to me when they got back would arrive to find there was nothing left to do it to.

The timing was everything, and a motivated cash buyer was the gift that made the timing possible.

I had spent one evening locked out of my house in the rain.

I was going to spend the next several days making sure that the house, and the family who thought they controlled me through it, would never lock me out of anything again.

Chapter 10 — Are You Sure