“Once the house and accounts are moved, we can put him somewhere managed. He won’t fight us. He still thinks we’re his family.”
Claire reached for the laptop, but I lifted my hand.
“Let it play.”
There was a pause in the recording. Then Vanessa gave a soft laugh.
“He paid for the wedding and still doesn’t know he wasn’t invited into the future.”
I stared at the screen.
Everything inside me became still.
Claire whispered, “Mr. Carter, I’m so sorry.”
I rose slowly from the chair.
“Don’t be,” I said. “You just saved my life.”….
Part 2
I left Claire’s office with the recording copied onto a flash drive, my hands shaking so badly that I had to sit in my car for ten minutes before I could drive away.
My first feeling was not anger.
It was disbelief.
