Three Weeks After Lucas Was Gone, Charles Claimed the House on Maple Street
“Fourteen Maple.
You’d be the Gallagher girl.”
“Victoria. Yes.”
“Then you want the whole chain and not the summary.” Edith turned the folder toward me.
“Because there’s a preliminary lien claim sitting on this property.”
My left hand went flat over my stomach.
“There can’t be.
The mortgage was cleared before Lucas and I ever closed.”