And all I had to do with Eleanor was keep telling her Maya was trying to steal her place as head of the family.

The old woman did the rest herself.”

On the recording, the woman asked why he was so obsessed with driving a wedge between Maya and my mother.

“Because if David divorced her, Eleanor would control the apartment, the family trusts, whatever David sent home.

With a newborn in the middle, we could bleed him dry for eighteen years.”

Chloe wept, holding her little boy tight.