My Husband Woke Me at 4:40 A.M. to Serve His Mother. Three Days After I Left, the Police Called About My House.

“Why would Gavin’s aunt quietly deposit her own money into a private trust created by my Aunt Madeline?”

“I agree that it seems inexplicable at first glance,” Samantha admitted.

“Did Aunt Madeline even know Patricia Thornton back then?”

There was another meaningful pause on the line.

“That is the exact same question I started asking myself tonight.”

PART 11

Early the next morning, I returned to Samantha’s law office.

She had already pulled several dusty, archival boxes from the firm’s deepest storage room.