“Tabitha offered him ten million dollars to testify that your father was mentally unfit when he changed his will.”

“But she told me Kyle was helping her take the estate.”

“Your brother has only been pretending to go along with them, to make them feel safe,” she revealed. “He gave them just enough rope to hang themselves.”

I was still trying to process the betrayal when Penelope delivered the most shocking part of the plan.

“Tomorrow at the reading, it will look as though Tabitha and Calvin are receiving a massive portion of the inheritance.”

I stood up abruptly, panic surging through me.

“Why would he do that after everything they did?”

“Let me finish, because the moment they accept that inheritance, the codicil is officially activated.”