My parents said to Grandma that they were taking her out to lunch. Three hours later, a nursing facility called me.

“At lunch today, your mother told me we were stopping somewhere that had a lovely garden. They walked me into that facility, finished none of the paperwork, and vanished.”

My phone buzzed.

Dad.

Grandma reached over and turned it face down on the console.

“Courthouse first,” she repeated. “Then the bank. Then there’s one more place.”

“What place?”

She looked directly into my eyes.

“My house.”

I swallowed hard.

“Why?”

“Because if they’ve done what I think they’ve done, your parents didn’t just leave me there today.”

She reached inside