She left it to Maya, who had been orphaned at nine and separated from her younger brother at ten and had spent the years between eleven and eighteen in three different households, and who had come to Rosalie’s on weekends starting at fourteen and had been, by both of their accounts, the only person Rosalie ever really talked to.

Maya had inherited it four years before she met Mark.

That order of events would matter enormously, later, in ways that Theresa-equivalents in three separate law offices would explain to her: it was hers before the marriage, she had never retitled it, she had paid the taxes out of an account with only her name on it.

It was, in the language of the eventual filings, non-marital property, cleanly.

Which is why it could not simply be taken.