My name was written across the front in her familiar looping hand.

Walter, If you are reading this, I am gone, and you have come into more than property. You have come into a fight I knew would find you.

I lowered myself into the desk chair.

I have watched from a distance these nine years. I know what Rebecca and Trent did when you needed a place to land. I know you never told me the whole of it, because you were too proud and too hurt, but Cedar Falls is not as big as people think.

I know enough.

My throat tightened.