Chapter 13 — The Conditions

“Bennett,” Hollis said, his voice low and gravelly.

“When your father created the Lake House Trust, twenty years ago, he placed very strict conditions on when it could be opened.

It was never meant to be triggered simply by his death.

He designed it to open only when two specific things had both come to pass.”

I leaned against the corner of the desk with my arms crossed, the old posture of a man who wants a room to know he is unmoved even when he is not.

“And what were those two things, Hollis?”