My Parents Returned With a Moving Truck After Grandpa’s Funeral, But He Had Left One Final Instruction

I considered that.

Chloe had been a child too, though the years afterward hadn’t given her much reason to seek me out.

“You could have asked,” I said.

“I know.”

She swallowed audibly.

“I’m sorry about what I said when we came to the house.”

I didn’t rush to comfort her.

“You called me a leech.”