“I wanted that too,” I said.

“More than anything.

But wanting it doesn’t make it true.”

PART 11

The financial secret emerged because of a photocopy Lauren almost threw away.

She had been cleaning out a filing cabinet when she found old correspondence from Elaine’s attorney.

One page named Brian and Lauren as successor fiduciaries if Harold became unable or unfit to administer the trust.

Another listed a commercial building in downtown Denver that had been sold nine years earlier.