Confusion twisted his features, followed by something like jealousy. “So that’s where the money went.”

Carol dropped her gaze.

My voice turned cold. “Careful.” Bradley looked at me in surprise. “That woman,” I said, “was here with your mother while you were calculating your inheritance.

She sat beside her through treatments you knew about and ignored when they became inconvenient. She gave Helen a place to be honest before she died.”

“I didn’t know about her.”

“No. But you knew about the illness.”