After returning home from a 9-month deployment, I found all my belongings stuffed into trash bags inside my own house

He nodded toward the side of the house.

Private conversation.

Of course.

I followed him.

“You need to handle something tomorrow,” he said immediately.

No greeting.

Just an order.

“What kind of something?”

“A transfer,” he said. “Paperwork. Simple.”

I already knew where this was going.

“Transfer of what?”

“The house.”

There it was.

“Chloe needs stability,” he continued. “You’re not here enough to justify holding on to a property like this.”

Holding on to.

Interesting.

“I’m here now,” I said.

He ignored that.

“You’ll go down to the office