Blues III: Five Smooth Stones Chapter Thirteen That next week, I think I was still in a state of shock after I left the office of Romero’s lawyer, Attorney Stein, in Pasadena. It had been a couple of weeks since I received Romero’s posthumous phone message, but, after handling the kidnapping case, I’d elected to see Rachel and Venita first. Now, after visiting the lawyer, I was standing in possession of the deed to Romero’s property in Silver Lake and I also had the front door key. I couldn’t believe it. I was now the owner of a house that was straight-out paid for. All I would have to pay were the taxes and home owner’s insurance. I couldn’t believe my eyes. Romero only asked that I would visit his daughter, Bianca, when possible and establish a relationship with her. When Bianca turned eighteen, he also left money in a trust for his daughter that he wanted me to oversee when Bianca became college aged. I wondered why he didn’t leave it for her mother, Jade, but the divorce had been an acrimonious one.
