Using my family’s name, and my grandson’s money, to enrich his own bloodline.”

“I thought Leo was mine for six years!” Marcus said, and now there were tears on his face, though I could not tell for whom.

“Jonathan — Jonathan was the one who told me to keep quiet about the test, not to make a fuss, that we could smooth everything over once the twins were born and the trust converted—”

“And you went along with it,” I said, and I heard the flatness in my own voice, the disgust settling into it like a sediment.

“You knew the boy wasn’t yours, you knew the amendment was a fraud, and you went along with all of it.

Because you wanted control of the company.”