Seraphina

For the rest of the day, I kept thinking about my encounter with Ambrose Fledger and what he said.

When our parents passed, a lot of things had changed in the blink of an eye. We couldn’t even remain in the house we grew up in because we couldn’t keep up with the taxes.

Neither of us had any jobs, and there didn’t seem like there was any form of investment that should have kept us going.

Our father had had a few debts that his lawyer had to clear, even so badly that they had ...