But Nora had seen that move coming from a mile off, the way she had seen everything else coming.

That was precisely why she had been evaluated and certified as sound of mind on the very day she signed, why she had built the whole thing to be unassailable.

She had known her son.

She had known exactly which weapon he would reach for.

And she had disarmed it before he ever picked it up.

One of his own attorneys, a careful man who had been reading the documents on the desk while his client blustered, leaned in and murmured something in Arthur’s ear, and I watched Arthur’s face change as he heard it.

I did not catch every word, but I caught enough.