You and Ryan are prohibited from coming within five hundred feet of Claire or this property.”

“You can’t do this!” Ryan shouted, straining against the deputy holding him to the wall. “She owes us! That house belongs to the family!”

“No,” said a voice.

Everyone on the porch turned.

I was standing in the doorway. I’d unlocked the heavy oak door myself and pushed it open, and I stepped out into the freezing rain and let it blow across my face.

I wasn’t shaking anymore.