By the time she was done, my notebook was full of lines and arrows and bullet points. The word mine circled around the cabin three times. I looked at that messy page and then back at the screen.
“I don’t want to destroy them,” I said quietly. “I just want them to stop.”
Maya held my gaze and replied, “Sometimes the only way people like that stop is when the consequences finally land on their own doorstep. You’re not stealing from them, Jenna. You’re taking your own name back.”
I sat with that for a long minute, the silence stretching between us. Finally, I nodded. “Call your buyers,” I said. “Let’s see how fast they can move.”
Maya did not waste time. The morning after our call, she texted me a short message that made my stomach flip.
They’re interested. Can you meet this afternoon?
Two hours later, I was sitting in a quiet corner of her office, a folder in my lap while she walked a couple in their mid-30s through photos of the Lake Chalan cabin on her laptop. They were exactly the type of people my parents would have adored selling to themselves—polished and excited, talking about summers on the lake and maybe renting it out as a creative retreat for tech workers.
There was a part of me that wanted to slam the laptop shut and tell them no, that this place was too tangled up in my life to hand over that easily. But every time that instinct rose up, I heard my mom’s voice again at that dinner, the word pity curling like smoke in my ear, and Ryan’s laugh when he called me a failure.
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