mailed to you. Did you get a notice in the mail? From the estate?”
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I thought about it. I remembered a letter. November. From the lawyer in Creston. I’d opened it at the care center on a break and read it and put it in my locker.Find Lawyers
“Yes,” I said.
“Then the deadline passed a long time ago,” Margaret said gently. “Probably before the wedding.”
Brittany made a small sound.
“And even if you could contest it,” Margaret said, “the land’s been sold. To a good-faith buyer. Mr. Akers paid a fair, if low, price, and had no knowledge of any of this. A court isn’t going to take the land back from him.”
“I wouldn’t want them to,” I said.
Margaret looked at me for a long moment.
“Then what do you want?” she asked.
I didn’t know how to answer.
