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And just like that, they were finished. She slammed the door hard enough to rattle the frame.
Two weeks later, I was arranging the nursery when furious pounding shook the front door. Veronica and Mike had returned, shouting.
“You don’t deserve this house!” she screamed. “It’s mine!”
Within minutes, they were arrested for trespassing and harassment. Veronica fought wildly, yelling about what she was “owed,” but it didn’t matter.
That night, I sat in the quiet living room, the deed resting in my lap, wrapped in a blanket. I looked up and whispered, “You really thought of everything, didn’t you?”