Now I knew I might never receive that explanation.

I also knew I didn’t have to keep my life on hold while waiting for it.

The house didn’t heal every wound.

Grandpa’s will didn’t erase seventeen years of absence.

Even Chloe’s apology didn’t turn us into sisters overnight.

But Grandpa had left me something more useful than certainty about the past.

He had left me room to choose what happened next.

I could keep the land or sell it someday.