She had quietly financed Lucius’s first major development through a separate fund.

She had protected his company through two financial crises he never fully understood the depth of.

She had paid off Lenette’s considerable personal debts, funded Thea’s failed beauty brand, and arranged and paid for the private medical care that got Everard through a complicated surgery.

The Beckworths believed their entire comfortable life was the product of Lucius’s brilliance.

In truth, it had been assembled, quietly and without credit, by the daughter-in-law they treated as staff.

Isadora had never asked them to thank her.