“Your daughter is the center of this.”

“No. The company is.”

“That is where you’re wrong.” His tone dropped. “I could have acquired Bennett Marine without marrying Sophia. It would have taken longer, but it was possible.

The marriage was necessary for something else.” Rebecca’s fingers tightened around the laptop. I felt the blood leave my face. Something else. My father asked the question I couldn’t.

“What?”

Daniel moved closer to the hidden door, each measured footstep audible. “Ask Sophia why Elaine Bennett changed her will six days before she died.”