Payable on Death
A neighbour.
Me.
And she said no to that too, and that is the one I have to live with, because I was nine miles away and I had taken her bins out eleven days earlier.
And then, at the door, with her hand on the frame, my grandmother asked Arthur Vance one question.
She asked: “Is it still in Chloe’s name?”
And he said yes.
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