Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we’d opened that chest and found nothing but ordinary papers.
Would he still have apologized?
Would he have learned to respect my decisions?
Or would he have continued making jokes about my grandmother’s house?
I don’t know.
What I do know is that Owen and I are going to restore the property, preserve the family memories, and build new ones of our own.
The discovery behind that wall may eventually change our financial future.
But it also revealed something about my marriage that no amount of money could fix overnight.
Because Grandma Rose’s house was worth saving long before anyone discovered a valuable comic book hidden inside its walls.