Chapter 2 - Rachel Plays The First Recording
Rachel did not argue with Mark.
She held up her phone.
“Sit down.”
He laughed.
Then she pressed play.
The video showed my living room from nine days earlier.
Mark stood beside my recliner.
The same transfer papers were spread across the coffee table.
Emily stood near the fireplace.
“Dad,” she said on the recording, “you already told us the house would stay in the family.”
I heard my own voice.
“I said you girls would inherit after I’m gone. That is not the same as giving Mark my house while I’m alive.”
Mark leaned over me.
“You’re seventy. What exactly are you protecting it for?”
The restaurant went silent.
Rachel paused the video.
Mark said:
“That proves nothing.”
Rachel nodded.
“You’re right.”
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Then she swiped to the next clip.
“That one is worse.”
