They Announced They Were Moving Into My Dream Beach House — I Prepared A Welcome They Never Expected

could claim it the way she’d claimed my bedroom seventeen years ago.

I stared at the ocean until my heartbeat settled into something cold and purposeful. Then I picked up my phone and called my father.

He answered groggily. “Bonnie? Everything okay?”

“Did you tell Victoria she could move into my house?” I asked, keeping my voice level.

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