“What emails, Chloe?”

“Messages he sent to a private loan officer.

While Leo was in the hospital.” She was barely able to get it out.

“He wrote that if things ended badly with Leo — that if the worst happened — then getting you out of the house afterward would be easy.

Because you’d be too weak to fight back.” A shaking breath.

“And after the funeral, on Monday, he texted his brother.