You recorded Mom?
I replied:
No. The garage did. That’s where you put me.
Grace glanced at her watch.
“There is one more thing they need to know.”
I nodded.
“Check the eviction notice,” I said. “The buyer is someone you already know.”
Mom stopped crying.
“What do you mean, someone we know?”
Grace answered.
“The buyer is Mr. Howard Mason.”
Dad made a sound as if the name had physically struck him.
Howard Mason was his former business partner—the man Dad blamed for the company’s collapse.
But Grace’s records showed something very different.
Howard had offered Dad a fair buyout before bankruptcy.
Dad rejected it out of pride.
Howard hadn’t bought the house to punish him.
He bought it because Grace explained that I needed a quick sale, and he remembered me doing homework in their old office.
He also remembered Dad using my college savings to cover business debts.
