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” I repeated. “That means sell.”

“It means Julian could sign a listing agreement for this house without your consent,” Raymond said.

He looked up at me, his eyes dark behind his clean lenses. “Did he say why he needed this level of control?”

“He said he wanted to make sure my future was secure,” I said.

Raymond set the paper down and looked out over his continue reading …