Daniel slid another document toward me.
“He protected you and your daughter first.”
PART 13
Mark had created separate provisions.
Our home remained protected according to the ownership and estate plan
already in place.
Life insurance was divided through updated beneficiary arrangements.
A trust for our daughter had been established.
Another provision was created for Noah.
Rebecca would not control it.
An independent trustee would.
Mark had anticipated the fight.
PART 14
“Why hide this from me?”
Daniel exhaled.
“I advised him not to.”
That surprised me.
“You told him to tell me?”
“Repeatedly.”
“What did he say?”
“That you were eight months pregnant, he was dying, and he could not
bear to put another crisis on you until he knew what was true.”
I looked away.
It sounded like Mark.
Protective.
Stubborn.
Wrong.
PART 15
Then Daniel gave me the document Mark had feared most.
It was not about money.
It was a private investigator’s report.
