Tell me what it was like to book a honeymoon suite before the ink on her hospice intake forms had even dried.”

Greg’s lawyer actually squeezed his eyes shut in defeat.

Greg looked down at the table, his mask completely slipping, revealing the arrogant, entitled monster underneath. “She was already dying anyway,” he muttered defensively.

David slammed his hands on the table. “And there it is.”

The mediation ended twenty minutes later. Greg’s attorney dragged him into the hallway and returned with a total, unconditional surrender. Greg renounced all claims to the life insurance.

He relinquished any challenge to Sarah’s newly established trust. He signed a formal retraction of his claims that Sarah was mentally unstable.