Do not attempt to use my accounts, do not remove any property from this house, and do not come to my office.

Evelyn — who had come home with him, because of course she had — snatched the note off the fridge and ripped it in half.

“The nerve of this woman!” she shrieked.

“Who does she think she is, laying down rules in your own home?!”

And Jason, quietly, took the two torn halves out of his mother’s hand.

“Mom,” he said.