“I never saw this letter until after he died.”

Julian stared at her.

“So Dad turned uncertainty into certainty when he spoke to you.”

Beatrice whispered:

“Yes.”

That sounded exactly like the kind of man Richard had apparently been.

PART 13 — RICHARD NEEDED AN HEIR

More documents explained Julian’s beginning.

Richard knew he had fathered Julian.

A private DNA test had apparently been done when Julian was an infant.