both watched her nervously from the couch. She’d called a
n
emergency meeting with just her siblings as soon as she’d
answered her phone that afternoon.
It was hours later, but she still hadn’t calmed down.
“I think you kind of have to,” Billy put in helpfully. Or not
so helpfully.
“Yeah, I think there could be laws about this kind of stuff,”
Danica agreed, backing up their brother.
“What the heck? You’re taking their side in this?”
“No! Just saying,” Billy mumbled.
“What are they going to do? Drag me off to jail for
refusing to go in and sign some papers? I’m not going in! I’m
not going to do it! Grampy should never have left her money
at all. I have no idea why he did that.”
“Well, clearly he still liked her. He did make the will when
he found out he was sick, so that wasn’t that long ago. It
wasn’t like it was from before that person who we won’t talk
about because saying her name makes you edgy as heck up
and left. And you’re already looking like you’re going to turn
into a fire breathing dragon, and your place is nice. You
shouldn’t burn it down.”
Quinn turned on her brother, but not meanly. Billy was just
trying to help. He was younger than Quinn by over two years
and was almost five years younger than Danica. Billy was the
typical class clown growing up. He was funny as an adult too,
but this wasn’t funny. Quinn knew he wasn’t trying to make a
joke out of it. At least not at her expense. He was just trying to
slog through the tension, and man, things were tense.
“I don’t know why Grampy put that clause in there,” Danica