“My loves,” she began, “it hurts me to say this, but you need to know the whole truth.”
I gripped the edge of the crate.
“If you’re watching this, something has gone wrong, or I haven’t come back yet. Please don’t be angry with me.”
“Come back?” Ethan breathed. “What does she mean, come back?”
“Shhh. Listen.”
“It hurts me to say this, but you need to know the whole truth.”
“Diane has been pressuring me for months,” Laura continued, her voice cracking. “About my mother’s inheritance. The land, the accounts, all of it. She says it should have been hers.”
“Aunt Diane?” Adam said. “Our Aunt Diane?”
“She threatened to take the girls from me. She said she’d tell the courts I was unstable. I begged her to stop.”
I felt the room tilt.
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