I got out of the car and asked them what they were talking about, but my voice felt like it belonged to a stranger.
Russell explained that his parents were moving in with us and that we would use my mother’s money to settle everything once and for all.
I looked at the wreckage of the kitchen where my mother used to hum while washing grapes and I began to laugh because they had made such a massive mistake.
“There is no inheritance for you to take because my brother took the cash and stocks months ago while I took the house,” I told them plainly.
All three of them went blank with shock as I explained that the property still belonged to the estate and had not even cleared probate yet.
Don stepped toward me and demanded that I get the money from my brother, but my laughter disappeared and was replaced by something cold and solid.
“I am not getting money, but I am getting a very good lawyer,” I said while looking at the ruins of the porch swing my father had built for me.
Russell told me not to be dramatic, but I informed him that he had illegally destroyed property and trespassed on an estate that did not belong to him.