My Late Partner’s Parents Suddenly Appeared & Demanded I Give Them the Keys to His House — I Agreed under One Condition

I remember opening the door, my heart in my throat, not knowing what to expect. But I certainly wasn’t expecting this. Susan, Jason’s mom, looked at me with this fake sweetness that made my skin crawl.”Alice, dear,” she began, her voice dripping with insincerity, “we were so sorry to hear about Jason. It must be so difficult for you, living here all alone.” I nodded, not trusting myself to speak. What could I possibly say to her? She wasn’t here for Jason. She never had been.Charles, his dad, didn’t waste any time. “We need to talk about the house,” he said, his tone cold and businesslike. “Jason was our son, and this house should be ours now.”The words hit me like a punch to the gut. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. “What do you mean, ‘yours’? Jason bought this house, and I’ve been paying the mortgage. It’s in my name.” That’s when their lawyer, who had been standing off to the side like some silent executioner, decided to chime in. “Legally speaking,” he began, his voice smooth and practiced, “as Jason’s next of kin, his parents have a rightful claim to the property.

Without a will, the law generally favors the immediate family.””You think you can just come in here, after all this time, and take his house? You didn’t care about him when he was alive, and now you want what was his?” Susan’s face hardened, the facade cracking just a little. “Alice, we’re his family. Blood is thicker than water. Jason would have wanted us to have this house, to keep it in the family.” I could feel the anger bubbling inside me, but I forced myself to stay calm.”Jason put this house in my name over a year ago, after he got sick. We knew this might happen, and we made sure everything was legal. You don’t have a claim here. If you want this house, you can buy it from me for the price I paid Jason plus the four years of mortgage payments I made on it.” Charles stepped forward, his voice low and threatening. “You know we can’t afford that, you selfish little… you know well that Jason would’ve wanted us to have this house. You transfer the mortgage to our name, and we’ll take over the payments.