And he was fully lucid when we were married by the hospital chaplain.

He knew exactly what he was doing, and exactly why.” It was, I understood even as I said it, a strange position to be defending.

I had not wanted his fortune.

I had not known it existed.

But I would not stand there and let this cold man reduce the kindest thing I had ever done, and the truest wish of a dying man, to a scam.

Chapter 14 — Hand Over the Deed