He told me she’d taken it from their father’s bedside table two days earlier.
She intended to bring it to Ellie.
Without their father’s permission.
“You mean she stole it?” I asked.
Nathan nodded.
“Yes.”
“And your father doesn’t know?”
“He knows now. That’s why everything became complicated yesterday.”
I stared at him in disbelief.
“Why would someone with a whole family leave a little girl without her mother’s inheritance?”
Nathan’s shoulders slumped.
“Our father is a very difficult man.”
“That doesn’t answer my question.”
“No,” he admitted. “It doesn’t.”
I crossed my arms.
“How did you even find us?”
“We’d been trying to locate Claire for years. About three months ago, a private investigator discovered court records showing that you were Ellie’s legal guardian.”
My chest tightened.
“So that’s when you learned what happened to her?”
Nathan nodded.
