My daughter called me from her wedding suite while I was lying in a hospital bed, still bl:eeding from the ac:cident.

to it.”

Clara stumbled backward. “What?”

Denise handed her a single sheet of paper.

“Under the morality and fraud clause of the trust,” she explained, “your beneficiary status is suspended pending investigation. If convicted, permanently revoked.”

Clara read the page once. Then again. Her lips began trembling.
“Dad,” she whispered. “Please.”

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