“You think you’re so clever, Frances.

I will tell this entire family what kind of woman you really are.”

And so I opened the small white envelope, and I slid the photocopied record slowly across the table to her.

Chapter 26 — The Greatest Inheritance

“This is the record of your father’s estate from forty years ago,” I said quietly.

“Complete with your signature, and the audit of what you took from it.

Lawrence covered it for you, all those years ago, and he kept this to protect our family from exactly the scheme you have spent these past weeks trying to carry out.”