In a daze, I ambled through the market for dinner produce and headed towards the restaurant, taking my time to process things. My mind was still buzzing with unanswered questions. Why had my mother kept Jill in the dark about Bill? She was, after all, far more than just her lawyer.

And how and why did she sell, or more like GIVE her inheritance to Bill? Had Bill known that I had been told about him and that I was going to Idaho all along?

“So much for leaving ...