My Parents Took My Grandfather’s Mansion and Car and Told Me to Leave Until a Lawyer Called Two Days Later

clearly when the anchor line snaps,” he said.

I smiled. “That sounds like one of your lessons.”

“It is.”

He rested his hand over mine. “Read everything carefully, Amelia. Especially when grief is making everyone else careless.”

I thought he meant life in general. The way he always wove advice into conversation, making it sound like observation rather than continue reading …