It had been, very possibly, the last moment at which the whole thing could still have been stopped.

A child summoned her courage in the final hour, and it was enough, barely, and Marcus has never stopped being grateful, and never stopped being afraid of how easily it might not have been.

Chapter 14 — The Rider

“What kind of rider?” Marcus asked.

“It proposed transferring secondary managerial authority of the estate to an appointed third party,” Victoria said, “in the event that you became temporarily incapacitated, or if Lily was placed into full-time residential behavioral care.” She paused before the last of it.

“The designated secondary trustee named in that rider was Sarah.”