I had called my attorney and executed an emergency amendment to the trust.

Under the new terms, Beckett would get nothing — not one dollar — if our marriage ended in divorce, or if he ever became the subject of a criminal investigation connected to my death or incapacitation.

My daughter’s inheritance was sealed into a blind trust that only my brother and an independent professional fiduciary could touch, structured so that Beckett could not reach it through her, either.

My husband had spent months planning to murder me for a fortune he had, three weeks earlier, been permanently locked out of.