You do not get to occupy this house while you do so.”

Chloe laughed sharply.

“Then who gets it?

Some charity?”

Richard looked toward me.

“The residue of Samuel’s estate, including this house and the twenty-four acres on which it stands, is left to Clara, subject to the ordinary administration of the estate and any lawful obligations.”

The silence that followed was unlike anything I’d heard inside that house.

Outside, the moving truck idled.