I Arrived at My Beach House to Find It Under Construction. By Morning, They Were Knocking at 6 a.m.

air would help. We thought everyone would win.”

“Everyone wins when I’m locked in a nine-by-nine room?”

“It wouldn’t be forever. Just until you got used to it. Then we could take turns. You come some months, we come others.”

“It’s my house, Matthew. There don’t have to be turns.”

He swallowed. “But it’ll be mine someday, right? When you’re gone, this house continue reading …