“That is the deed to this house. It’s in your name—Lyla Blackthorne—and it’s all yours.” Stunned, she looked down at the paper again, and sure enough the words ‘property’ and ‘belong’ and her name, her new name, were there. While she processed it, the enormity of it, he continued. “I had this house built for you. You'll always have a place to go that is only yours.”
