Financial files closed.

For once, nothing left to audit.

Chloe had told me to go die in the mountains.

Instead, I learned how to live there.

Not because I defeated her.

Not because I inherited a house.

Not because Julian went to prison.

Because beneath everything Leo had hidden for me was one final instruction I almost missed.

Finish the work.

Then keep living.

That was what my son had actually left me.

And unlike every disputed house, account, signature, and trust document that came before it, nobody could ever take that inheritance away.