Marcus continued. The trust purchased the property. Philip and Suzanne remained in residence under occupancy terms that included maintenance of the property, nontransferable occupancy, and a conduct clause prohibiting abuse or endangerment toward Mitchell, Wendy, or dependents under their care on premises. There had even been a legal mechanism for temporary use by family guests. Mitchell had built all of this not because he wanted control but because he understood that generosity without boundaries simply gives abusers sturdier tools.
“Clause four is clean,” Marcus said. “Given what happened, termination is defensible from every angle.”
Wendy should have felt vindicated. Instead she felt tired in a way that had nothing to do with surgery. “I spent years thinking I was overreacting.”
Marcus gave her a look neither pitying nor clinical. “People like that survive by convincing their target the map is wrong.”
Service of the eviction papers happened within days.