near her phone, I heard Grant laugh.
“Why are the locks being changed?”
“Because Grant and I found Dad’s papers. He left the house to us. The truck too. The accounts. Everything else.”
Dad and I stared at one another.
Then Vanessa delivered the sentence she had apparently been saving.
“You were specifically excluded.”
Grant laughed louder.
A moment later, his voice came closer to the phone.
“You’re finally out of the family.”
Dad’s fingers tightened around his coffee mug.
Grant kept talking.
“No more showing up every few months
