Or I will destroy you.” And I looked at this man, at the cold fury and the naked threat, and I understood exactly why Julian had gone to such lengths, why he had married a stranger and hidden a fortune and left a warning in a leather notebook.

He had known his son.

He had known that this was what would come for the shop, and for Lily’s memory, the moment he was gone.

Chapter 15 — Neither Will I

Arthur stepped smoothly between Caleb and me, and drew a document from inside his coat.

“Actually, Caleb,” he said, “your father anticipated your legal threats.

He was, as you know, a careful man.

Forty-eight hours before he passed, he filed an irrevocable transfer deed, conveying the property to Nora.