He sat down across from her. “At first I hated you for not paying off my creditors. I thought a mother with twenty million dollars had to be cruel to let her son face a trial.”

“And now?”

“Now I know that if you’d paid, I’d have learned I could lie to you, forge your name, and take your money without losing anything.”

Abigail reached across and took his hand. “You tried to have me declared incompetent. An apology doesn’t erase that.”

“I know.”

“You’ll be proving you’ve changed for years.”