PART 2 — THE HOUSE THEY THOUGHT WAS THEIRS

“Exactly what I said,” Dad replied.
Vanessa went silent again.
I could almost picture her standing inside Dad’s house with Grant beside her, both of them staring at each other and suddenly wondering how many assumptions they had made that morning.
Dad leaned back in his chair.
“Yesterday afternoon, I signed papers concerning the house.”
“What papers?” Vanessa asked immediately.
Her voice was too fast.
Too sharp.
Dad glanced at me before answering.
“The kind you should have asked about before announcing my death.”
“Dad, I can explain.”
“Then explain.”
Vanessa inhaled.
Nothing came out.
Grant tried instead.

“Richard, this is obviously some kind of misunderstanding.”
Dad’s expression changed the moment Grant used his first name.
Grant had always called him Mr. Cole until he married Vanessa.
Then, somewhere along the way, he started acting as though thirty years of Dad’s life belonged to him too.
“A misunderstanding?” Dad repeated.
“Yes.”
“You told my daughter I was dead.”
Another pause.
Grant cleared his throat.
“We were given information.”
“By whom?”
Silence.
Dad’s fingers tapped once against the table.
“Who told you I was dead, Grant?”
Vanessa jumped in.
“Harold.”

Dad looked at me.
Then he smiled.
Not a warm smile.
The kind of smile that meant somebody had just walked into a trap without realizing the door had closed behind them.
“Interesting,” he said.
“What?”
“Harold is sitting in my living room.”
Vanessa stopped breathing.
At least, that’s what it sounded like.
Then, from somewhere behind us, a man’s voice called out.
“Need me, Rich?”
Dad raised his voice.
“Come here a minute, Harold.”
I had almost forgotten Harold was in the house.
He had arrived before sunrise after driving Dad to my place the previous evening, then slept on the couch because the roads had iced over.
A few seconds later he appeared in the kitchen wearing plaid pajama pants, one of Dad’s old college sweatshirts, and the bewildered expression of a man who had been dragged into family drama before his second cup of coffee.
Dad pointed at the phone.

“Apparently, you found me dead last night.”
Harold blinked.
“I did?”
Vanessa made a tiny sound.
Harold stepped closer.
Dad pushed the phone toward him.
“Vanessa says you told her I died.”
Harold stared at the speaker.
“Vanessa?”
No answer.
“Vanessa Cole, are you there?”
Finally she whispered, “Yes.”
Harold scratched the side of his face.
“That’s strange.”
“What is?”

“I haven’t spoken to you in nine days.”
Dad slowly folded his arms.
Grant muttered something in the background.
Then Vanessa snapped, “I must have misunderstood somebody.”
“Somebody?” I repeated.
She ignored me.
Dad didn’t.
“Who?”
“Dad, can we please discuss this privately?”
“We are discussing it privately.”
“Natalie is there.”
“I’m aware.”
“I mean without Natalie.”
Dad stared at the phone.
“You called Natalie.”

Vanessa didn’t respond.
“You called my youngest daughter at six-thirty in the morning,” Dad continued, “told her I was dead, told her not to come to my house, told her you’d changed my locks, claimed my property belonged to you, and then allowed your husband to tell her she was finally out of the family.”
His voice never rose.
That somehow made every word heavier.
“And now,” he added, “you’re worried Natalie might hear something private?”
“Dad—”
“No.”
One word.
Flat.
Final.
Vanessa went quiet.
Dad turned toward Harold.
“Coffee’s fresh.”
Harold nodded.
“I think I’m gonna need something stronger.”
Despite everything, I nearly laughed.
Grant didn’t.
“Richard,” he said, “we’re standing in your house right now, and I think you should come home so everybody can calm down.”
Dad’s eyes hardened.
“You’re in my house?”
“Yes.”
“How?”

Another silence.
Grant answered reluctantly.
“Vanessa had the key.”
Dad looked at me.
I knew immediately what he was thinking.
Vanessa’s key shouldn’t have worked.
Dad had changed his deadbolt three months earlier after losing his key ring at a hardware store.
He had given only three new keys out.
One to me.
One to Harold.
One to Mrs. Ellison next door for emergencies.
Vanessa wasn’t on that list.
“Which key?” Dad asked.
Vanessa sounded irritated now.
“My key.”
“I never gave you one.”
“You must have.”
“I didn’t.”
“Well, I have one.”
Dad sat perfectly still.
Then he asked a question I didn’t understand.
“Grant, where are you standing?”
“What?”
“In my house. Where exactly are you?”
“The living room.”
“Look toward the bookshelf beside the fireplace.”
I saw Dad’s expression and realized something was coming.
Grant hesitated.
“Okay.”
“Top shelf. Small brass clock.”
“Yeah.”
“See the little black dot underneath the twelve?”
Silence.
Grant didn’t answer.
Dad did it for him.
“That’s a camera.”
My stomach dropped.
Vanessa gasped.
Dad continued.
“I installed three of them six weeks ago.”
“Dad!”
“One in the living room. One facing the back entrance. One in my office.”
Grant cursed.
Dad’s jaw tightened.
“Careful.”
“What are you doing recording us?” Vanessa demanded.
“My house.”
“You can’t just spy on people!”
“I can certainly install security cameras in my own home.”
“This is insane.”
“No, Vanessa. What’s insane is declaring a living man dead and entering his house before breakfast.”
“I told you this was a misunderstanding!”
“And the cameras should help us understand it.”
For the first time since the call began, I felt something colder than anger.
Fear.
Not fear of Vanessa.
Fear of what Dad already knew.
I turned toward him.
“When did you install cameras?”
He didn’t answer.
Instead, he reached for his coffee.
Grant said, “We’re leaving.”
Dad set his mug down.
“No.”
“What?”
“Stay exactly where you are.”
Grant laughed nervously.
“You’re not ordering me around.”
“I’m not.”
Dad looked at Harold.
Then at me.
“I’m asking you to wait for the sheriff.”
The silence that followed was different from every silence before it.
Vanessa screamed first.
“The sheriff?”
Grant shouted over her.
“What the hell did you call the sheriff for?”
Dad calmly replied, “I didn’t.”
I stared at him.
He nodded toward Harold.
Harold lifted his hand.
“I did.”
“What?” Vanessa shouted.
Harold shrugged even though she couldn’t see him.
“About twenty minutes ago.”
Grant began swearing.
Vanessa sounded close to panic.
“Why would you call the sheriff?”
Harold’s expression lost every trace of humor.
“Because Richard’s neighbor called me at five forty-eight this morning and said your husband’s truck was parked behind the house with the license plates covered.”
I looked at Dad.
He looked almost disappointed.
Not surprised.
Disappointed.
Grant immediately denied it.
“That’s a lie.”
“Mrs. Ellison took pictures,” Harold said.
Nobody spoke.
Harold continued.
“She also watched you carry two empty file boxes inside.”
My skin prickled.
Dad closed his eyes briefly.
Like he’d hoped the neighbor had been mistaken.
Then Vanessa spoke.
“Grant?”
That one word told me something.
She hadn’t known about the boxes.
Grant stammered.
“They were just for documents.”
“What documents?” Dad asked.
“Family records.”
“My records.”
“We were trying to organize things.”
“For my funeral?”
No response.
Dad pushed back his chair and stood.
“Go outside.”
“What?”
“Both of you. Step out of my house and wait for Deputy Collins.”
Vanessa suddenly began crying.
Real tears this time.
Or at least sounds that resembled them.
“Dad, please. Please don’t do this.”
Dad’s face softened for half a second.
Then she added, “Think about what this could do to us.”
The softness disappeared.
I felt my chest tighten.
She had told me our father was dead less than fifteen minutes earlier.
Not once had she asked how I felt.
Not once had she said she was sorry.
Not once had she worried about what her lie would do to me.
But the moment consequences appeared, she wanted Dad to think about what they might do to her.
Dad seemed to realize the same thing.
“What exactly were you planning to do to Natalie?”
Vanessa sniffed.
“Nothing.”
“You told her not to come.”
“Because we thought—”
“You thought I was dead.”
“Yes.”
“Who told you?”
There it was again.
The question she couldn’t answer.
Dad stepped closer to the phone.
“Who told you I died?”
“I already said Harold.”
Harold shook his head.
Dad’s voice became softer.
“Don’t lie to me again.”
Vanessa began breathing faster.
Then Grant interrupted.
“We don’t have to answer this.”
Dad laughed once.
A short, humorless sound.
“You’re right.”
Grant seemed relieved.
Dad finished.
“You can answer Deputy Collins.”
The call disconnected.
For several seconds, none of us moved.
I stared at the dark phone screen.
Then I looked at Dad.
He walked toward the sink carrying his plate.
“Dad.”
“Hmm?”
“What is going on?”
He turned on the faucet.
“Dad.”
He rinsed his plate.
I stood.
“You knew something was wrong before Vanessa called.”
His shoulders stiffened.
Harold quietly pulled out a chair.
Dad shut off the water.
“Yes.”
That single word changed the entire morning.
“How long?”
Dad dried his hands.
“A little while.”
“How long?”
He looked toward Harold.
Harold didn’t help him.
Dad sighed.
“About two months.”
I felt my stomach drop.
“And you didn’t tell me?”
“I wasn’t sure.”
“Sure of what?”
Dad walked back to the table.
He sat down.
Then he looked at me with the expression he’d worn when I was twelve and he needed to explain something painful.
“That your sister and Grant were waiting for me to die.”
I didn’t speak.
I couldn’t.
Harold stared into his coffee.
Dad continued.
“It started with little things.”
“What things?”
“Questions.”
“What kind of questions?”
“Whether the mortgage was paid off. Where I kept the title to the truck. Whether your mother’s jewelry was still in the safe. Whether I had added beneficiaries to my bank accounts.”
I swallowed.
“Vanessa asked you those things?”
“Both of them.”
Dad rubbed his forehead.
“At first I thought they were worried about me getting older. Vanessa kept saying she wanted to make things easier someday.”
“Someday.”
“Exactly.”
He paused.
“Then Grant asked whether a handwritten will was legally binding.”
I stared at him.
“When?”
“Christmas.”
I remembered Christmas.
Grant and Vanessa had spent three nights at Dad’s house.
I hadn’t gone because a winter storm canceled my flight.
Vanessa had sent me pictures of dinner.
Grant standing beside Dad.
Vanessa holding Mom’s old serving platter.
Everyone smiling.
I suddenly saw those photographs differently.
Dad continued.
“Two weeks later, Vanessa asked whether Harold still had connections at the funeral home.”
Harold looked up.
“That’s when Rich called me.”
My mouth went dry.
“So you thought they were planning something?”
“No,” Dad said quickly. “Not at first.”
“Then what changed?”
He didn’t answer immediately.
Instead, he stood, walked toward the hallway, and returned carrying the small leather bag he’d brought to my house the previous evening.
He placed it on the kitchen table.
Then he unzipped it.
Inside were two folders.
A tablet.
An envelope.
And a small black notebook.
Dad took out the envelope.
“Three days ago, I found this inside my desk.”
He handed it to me.
There was no address.
No stamp.
Inside was a photocopy of something that made my heart slam against my ribs.
It was a death certificate.
Dad’s name was printed across the top.
RICHARD ALAN COLE.
Date of birth.
Home address.
Social Security information partially visible.
Everything looked official.
Except for one problem.
The date of death was blank.
I slowly looked up.
“What is this?”
“I was hoping you could tell me.”
My fingers started trembling.
Harold leaned forward.
“The funeral home listed there is mine.”
I looked back at the paper.
PIKE & SONS FUNERAL SERVICES.
Harold continued.
“Except that form hasn’t been used in four years.”
I stared at him.
“What do you mean?”
“When I retired, my nephew changed the paperwork and the logo. That’s an old template.”
Dad pointed toward the bottom.
“Look at the signature line.”
I did.
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Underneath it was Harold’s full name.
Typed.
Not signed.
Just waiting for a signature.
I felt sick.
“Somebody made this?”
Dad nodded.
“Apparently.”
“And you think Vanessa and Grant—”
“I didn’t know what to think.”
“Why didn’t you call the police?”
“I called my attorney first.”
Dad tapped the second folder.
“Yesterday morning.”
That was it.
The papers he had mentioned on the phone.
I opened the folder.
The first page contained a name I recognized.
MIRIAM BLAKE.
Dad’s attorney for nearly twenty years.
Beneath it were pages of legal documents.
Dad pointed to the first.
“Yesterday, Miriam revoked my old will.”
My eyes widened.
“Completely?”
“Completely.”
“What was in the old one?”
Dad looked uncomfortable.
“Vanessa and you split most things equally.”
I nodded slowly.
“And now?”
“I created a trust.”
I looked down.
“The Richard A. Cole Living Trust.”
“Yes.”
“And the house?”
“Transferred into it yesterday.”
“The truck?”
“Trust.”
“Accounts?”
“Most of them.”
I stared at him.
“Who inherits the trust?”
Dad’s gaze held mine.
“That’s not the important part.”
“It seems pretty important.”
“The important part is that Vanessa’s claim about finding papers saying everything belongs to her and Grant is impossible.”
A chill traveled up my arms.
Because suddenly I understood.
“If your old will split everything between us…”
“It did.”
“And the new one is with Miriam…”
“Yes.”
“Then whatever Vanessa supposedly found in your office…”
Dad nodded.
“Isn’t my will.”
The kitchen seemed to shrink around me.
Harold spoke quietly.
“That’s why we left town last night.”
I looked at him.
“What?”
Dad folded his hands.
“Miriam told me not to stay at the house until she could figure out where that death certificate came from.”
“So you came here.”
“Yes.”
“Without telling Vanessa.”
“Especially without telling Vanessa.”
I thought about the phone call.
About the locks.
The bank.
The truck.
The funeral arrangements.
Then I remembered something.
“Dad.”
He looked at me.
“Vanessa said she and Grant found your papers.”
“Yes.”
“She specifically said you left everything to them.”
“I heard.”
“Then they already have a fake will.”
Nobody said anything.
I felt my heartbeat in my throat.
“They weren’t planning to create one today,” I whispered.
Dad’s expression changed.
“They already created it.”
Harold leaned back.
“That’s what I’m afraid of.”
My phone rang.
All three of us jumped.
The screen showed a number I didn’t recognize.
Dad nodded for me to answer.
“Hello?”
A man’s voice came through.
“Is this Natalie Cole?”
“Yes.”
“This is Deputy Aaron Collins with the Whitfield County Sheriff’s Department.”
My eyes moved to Dad.
“Is my father okay?”
The deputy hesitated.
“Your father?”
“Richard Cole.”
Another pause.
“Ma’am, I’m currently standing outside Richard Cole’s residence.”
Dad motioned for speaker.
I pressed it.
Deputy Collins continued.
“I have a Vanessa Mercer here who says Richard Cole passed away last night.”
Vanessa had used Grant’s surname after they married.
I looked at Dad.
He looked exhausted.
“Deputy,” I said, “my father is sitting beside me.”
Silence.
Then Dad leaned toward the phone.
“Morning, Aaron.”
“Richard?”
“Unfortunately for my daughter, reports of my death have been exaggerated.”
Harold covered his mouth to hide a laugh.
The deputy didn’t laugh.
“Richard, I’m going to need you to tell me exactly where you are.”
Dad gave him my address.
“Can you remain there?”
“Yes.”
“Do not come to the residence yet.”
Dad’s expression sharpened.
“Why?”
There was noise in the background.
A car door.
A distant voice.
Then Deputy Collins said something none of us expected.
“Because when I arrived, Mr. Mercer was carrying a box out through your back door.”
Dad looked at Harold.
“What box?”
“We’re determining that.”
“What was inside?”
The deputy hesitated.
“Documents, from what I can see.”
Dad gripped the edge of the table.
“From my office?”
“Appears that way.”
Then the deputy lowered his voice.
“Richard, there’s something else.”
My stomach tightened.
“What?”
“Mrs. Mercer gave me a copy of what she claims is your last will and testament.”
Dad closed his eyes.
There it was.
The fake will.
“What does it say?” I asked.
The deputy answered carefully.
“It names Vanessa Mercer as sole beneficiary of the residence, vehicles, financial accounts, personal possessions, and any other property belonging to Richard Cole.”
Dad’s jaw tightened.
“And Natalie?”
I asked.
The deputy hesitated.
“There is a paragraph specifically excluding Natalie Cole.”
Exactly what Vanessa had told me.
I sat down.
Dad asked the next question.
“What’s the date?”
“November fourteenth.”
Dad stared at me.
That date meant nothing to me.
But it meant something to him.
His face changed completely.
“What?” I whispered.
He didn’t answer.
“Richard?” Deputy Collins said.
Dad leaned closer.
“Read me the witness names.”
Paper rustled.
The deputy read the first.
“Grant Mercer.”
Dad nodded slowly.
Of course.
Then the deputy read the second name.
And Harold’s coffee cup slipped from his hand.
“Harold Pike.”
Coffee splashed across the table.
Nobody moved.
Harold stared at the phone.
“I never witnessed any will.”
Deputy Collins became very quiet.
“Is Harold Pike with you?”
“I’m right here,” Harold said.
The deputy exhaled.
“Then I think we’ve got a much bigger problem.”
Dad stood.
“Look at the signatures.”
“I am.”
“Mine too.”
Another pause.
“Richard…”
“What?”
“Your signature is notarized.”
Dad’s face drained of color.
“By whom?”
The deputy gave us the name.
“Elaine Foster.”
Dad looked at me.
I didn’t recognize it.
Harold did.
He whispered, “Oh, no.”
I turned.
“You know her?”
Harold slowly nodded.
“She used to work for me.”
Dad stared at him.
“At the funeral home?”
“Yes.”
“When?”
“Until about four years ago.”
The same time the old death certificate forms stopped being used.
I felt every hair on my arms rise.
Dad clearly made the connection too.
“Where is she now?”
Harold swallowed.
“I don’t know.”
Deputy Collins spoke again.
“We’re going to secure the house and the documents. Richard, I’m going to send another deputy to Natalie’s address to take statements from all three of you.”
Dad agreed.
Before hanging up, Deputy Collins added one final sentence.
“And Richard?”
“Yes?”
“Don’t contact Vanessa or Grant again until we’ve sorted this out.”
The call ended.
For a long moment the three of us sat in stunned silence.
Then Dad looked at Harold.
“Elaine.”
Harold shook his head.
“I haven’t seen that woman since I sold the business.”
“What happened when she left?”
“Nothing.”
“Think.”
Harold stared at the table.
Then his eyes slowly lifted.
“There was one incident.”
Dad leaned forward.
“What incident?”
Harold hesitated.
“Your wife.”
I stopped breathing.
Dad’s face became unreadable.
“My wife?”
Harold immediately looked regretful.
“Rich…”
“My wife died six years ago. What does Elaine Foster have to do with Margaret?”
“I don’t know if she has anything to do with it.”
“Then why did you say her name?”
Harold stood and walked toward the window.
He stayed there for several seconds.
Finally he turned around.
“Two weeks after Margaret died, Elaine asked me for a copy of Margaret’s file.”
Dad went pale.
“Why?”
“She claimed Vanessa needed it for insurance.”
I looked at Dad.
“Vanessa?”
Harold nodded.
“I didn’t give it to her. Something felt wrong.”
“What happened?”
“Elaine got angry. Said I was making things difficult for the family.”
Dad’s voice became dangerously quiet.
“Did Vanessa ever ask you directly?”
“No.”
“Did you tell her Elaine had asked?”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because at the time I thought it was clerical nonsense. Elaine quit a few months later. I forgot about it.”
Dad stared toward the kitchen window.
Suddenly he looked older than he had ten minutes earlier.
Mom had died after a sudden aneurysm.
There had never been anything suspicious about it.
At least not that I knew.
I reached across the table.
“Dad.”
He shook his head.
“Don’t.”
“We don’t know that this has anything to do with Mom.”
“I know.”
But his face said he was already remembering six years of details.
Every phone call.
Every conversation.
Every document.
Harold walked back to the table.
“Rich, I should have told you.”
Dad didn’t respond.
My phone buzzed.
A text.
Vanessa.
I stared at her name.
DAD IS CONFUSED. DO NOT BELIEVE EVERYTHING HE’S SAYING.
Another message arrived.
GRANT AND I WERE ONLY TRYING TO PROTECT HIM.
Then another.
CALL ME WITHOUT HIM THERE.
I showed Dad.
He read them without touching the phone.
Then something strange happened.
He smiled.
“What?”
He stood.
“She’s scared.”
“Obviously.”
“No.”
Dad picked up the leather bag.
“Not because of the sheriff.”
He opened the small black notebook and flipped through several pages.
“What is that?”
“Dates.”
“What dates?”
“Every strange question Vanessa and Grant have asked me for two months.”
I stared.
“You wrote them down?”
“Miriam told me to.”
He turned to one page.
“January eighth. Grant asks where I keep the truck title.”
Another.
“January fifteenth. Vanessa asks whether Harold still has funeral-home records.”
Another.
“January twenty-second. Grant asks whether I keep blank checks in my office.”
Another.
“February second. Vanessa asks whether Natalie is listed as payable-on-death beneficiary anywhere.”
He looked at me.
Then he turned one final page.
“Three nights ago.”
His expression changed.
“What happened three nights ago?”
Dad slowly pushed the notebook toward me.
There was only one sentence written beneath the date.
VANESSA ASKED IF NATALIE KNEW I WAS GOING TO MIRIAM’S OFFICE.
My blood ran cold.
“How did she know?”
Dad shook his head.
“I never told her.”
“Did you tell anyone?”
“Harold.”
Harold immediately said, “And nobody else.”
I stared at both men.
“Then how did Vanessa know?”
Nobody had an answer.
Until I remembered something.
“Dad, where were you when you told Harold?”
“My house.”
“Where?”
“The office.”
The room with the security camera.
Dad suddenly froze.
Harold looked at him.
Then at me.
Dad grabbed his tablet.
“What?”
He opened the security application.
“These cameras record audio.”
He tapped through several menus.
“How far back?”
“Thirty days.”
He searched the date.
Then the time.
A video appeared.
Dad’s office.
Dad sitting behind his desk.
Harold sitting across from him.
I watched Dad tell Harold that Miriam Blake had asked him to come to her office Thursday morning.
Nothing unusual.
Then Harold left.
Dad remained for another minute before walking out.
The office was empty.
For seven minutes, nothing happened.
Then the door opened.
Vanessa walked in.
Dad’s hand tightened around the tablet.
She wasn’t supposed to be there that day.
At least according to Dad.
On the video, Vanessa glanced behind herself.
Then she moved directly toward Dad’s desk.
She opened the top drawer.
Then the second.
Then the locked bottom drawer.
And somehow…
She had a key.
I whispered, “Oh my God.”
Vanessa removed a folder.
She photographed several pages with her phone.
Then she put everything back exactly where she’d found it.
Before leaving, she stopped.
Looked directly toward the bookshelf.
And for half a second, I thought she was looking straight into the hidden camera.
But then she walked out.
Dad rewound.
We watched again.
Harold leaned closer.
“What folder was that?”
Dad’s face had become completely still.
“My estate folder.”
The room fell silent.
Dad closed the video.
“She knew.”
“Knew what?”
“That I was changing my will.”
I looked toward my phone.
Another message from Vanessa had appeared.
PLEASE, NATALIE. THERE ARE THINGS ABOUT DAD YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND.
Then:
WE NEED TO TALK BEFORE THE POLICE GET THERE.
Dad read it.
“Don’t answer.”
I wasn’t going to.
Then another message arrived.
This one wasn’t from Vanessa.
Unknown number.
No words.
Just a photograph.
I opened it.
At first I couldn’t understand what I was looking at.
Then Dad leaned over my shoulder.
His face went white.
It was an old photograph.
Mom.
Vanessa.
And a woman I didn’t recognize.
They were standing inside Pike & Sons Funeral Services.
The date printed in the corner was six years earlier.
Three days before Mom died.
Harold made a choking sound.
“That’s Elaine.”
I looked at him.
“The notary?”
He nodded.
Dad took the phone from my hand.
His fingers trembled.
Then a second message arrived from the unknown number.
This one contained only seven words.
ASK VANESSA WHAT YOUR MOTHER SIGNED THAT DAY.
Dad stared at the screen.
Nobody spoke.
Then someone knocked on my front door.
Three slow knocks.
Dad looked at Harold.
Harold looked at me.
“The deputy?” I whispered.
Dad checked the security camera on my porch through my doorbell app.
It wasn’t a deputy.
A woman stood outside wearing a gray winter coat.
She looked to be in her late sixties.
Her hair was silver.
Her face was pale.
In both hands, she held a thick brown envelope.
Harold stared at the screen.
Then he whispered the name none of us expected to hear.
“Elaine Foster.”
The woman who had supposedly disappeared four years ago was standing on my porch.
And before I could decide whether to open the door, my phone buzzed one final time.
Vanessa.
DON’T LET HER IN……

TO BE CONTINUED IN PART 3…

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