“That’s what it means.

I’m freeing myself from this property.”

She believed the paper was only an official way of walking away from the debt.

In her hurry to pack and get out the door with Rob, she hadn’t even read the second paragraph, which handed her whole ownership share over to me.

“Then sign it,” I said.

Vanessa grabbed the pen and scrawled her full legal name across the notary line at the bottom.

She pressed so hard that the metal tip punched a tiny hole right through the paper beneath the letter V.