Chapter 6 - The Discovery
My private investigator, a retired cop named Miller, called me late on a Tuesday evening.
He told me to sit down because the information he found was completely devastating.
David was not the successful corporate manager he pretended to be at family gatherings.
He was drowning in over eighty thousand dollars of illegal gambling debt.
Sarah and Mark were equally ruined, facing foreclosure on their massive suburban home.
They did not want the inheritance to honor their father's legacy.
They needed the money to save themselves from complete financial ruin and potential prison time.
Miller also found evidence that Mark had been secretly embezzling money from his own employer.
I thanked Miller and asked him to forward every single document to my attorney.
I felt a strange, cold numbness spreading through my chest as I looked at the reports.
My children were not just greedy; they were desperate, cornered criminals.
They saw me as nothing more than a convenient ATM to solve their massive failures.
I looked at a framed photo of Robert sitting on the mantelpiece.
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I promised my late husband that I would not let them destroy the only pure thing we had left.
Lily was going to live, even if it meant destroying my own children.
