Three Weeks After Lucas Was Gone, Charles Claimed the House on Maple Street
The letters he kept in the vault.
Lucas was careful, Victoria, but he wasn’t hiding things from you.
He was building a wall around you one brick at a time.”
“Can we activate it?”
“We can.
But not for free.” She opened a manila folder and turned it toward me.
“Activation requires you to surrender your direct administrative rights to the trust executor.
That’s me, until the freeze is lifted.