PART 1
I let my sister-in-law use the lake house my late grandmother left me after her wedding venue flooded two days before the ceremony. I asked for only three things: don’t touch Grandma’s garden, don’t damage the house, and take every piece of trash when the celebration ended.
Kelsey promised.
To me, those rules were not about being controlling. The house was the last place where Grandma’s presence still felt tangible, and the garden mattered most of all.
The next morning, I discovered she had ignored all of it.
