The paper was still warm from the copier in the back room.

“You’ll want the discharge in with those.

I added it.” Edith turned to a tab she had already made.

“Satisfaction of mortgage, filed October 2018.

Signed by Lucas Gallagher.”

Samantha clicked her pen twice and said nothing.

The county seal had gone soft at the edges.

Under it was Lucas’s name, the letters leaning the way they leaned on our marriage license.