Three Weeks After Lucas Was Gone, Charles Claimed the House on Maple Street
I filled the kettle.
She turned the order around so the signature page faced me.
“There’s one line left that I can ask for,” she said.
“Punitive damages.
Under the fraud clause you could take the lake property, the personal accounts, the rest of his pension.
My estimate is he’d be left with a Social Security check and a rented room.”
The kettle began to tick.
“No,” I said.
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