After returning home from a 9-month deployment, I found all my belongings stuffed into trash bags inside my own house

told me enough.

“And Vance?” I asked.

“Moved in.”

My duffel still sat on the porch behind me like it hadn’t gotten the message.

“And my room?” I asked.

Evelyn tilted her head like she was explaining something obvious.

“Well, honey, Chloe needed the master suite.”

Of course she did.

“She’s been under a lot of stress,” Evelyn continued. “You know how sensitive she is.”

Yeah.

Sensitive enough to need a king-size bed that wasn’t hers.

I nodded once.

“So, where am I sleeping?”

Richard answered.

“You’ve got options,” he