“So there’s nothing else we need to do?” Tessa asked, standing at the window that showed her the entirety of her front yard. Ron had left for the city over an hour ago, after a weekend of reviewing the documents in the ratty envelope Janey had produced. He’d declared them “nearly useless,” in a court of law, and Tessa had gritted her teeth and tucked the whole packet in the filing cabinet in the office.
Mom had obviously thought the documents would help, and Tessa wasn’t going to dismiss them just because Ron said she should.
She felt a weight on her shoulders that hadn’t been there before, because Dennis Martin’s children would come after her for the assets, and she realized Janey had gotten off the hook again.
her“Nothing,” Marcus Hall, their mother’s lawyer, said. “If you and Janey a
