“I walked into my own mansion expecting my wife to run into my arms, but instead I found my family celebrating my money while the woman I loved was missing.
Inside was a letter dated three months before my father’s death.
My eyes moved over the first lines, and
the room seemed to fade around me.
Danny,
If you are reading this, then either I have found the courage to tell you myself, or someone else has decided you deserve the truth after I am gone.Browse Reference
My breath stopped.
Emma stepped closer but did not touch me.
I kept reading.
The letter spoke of a loan my father had taken years before, not for himself, but to save Margaret from a debt connected to her brother. It spoke of a deed placed temporarily in another name. It spoke of a promise that certain properties were to be protected for me and, one day, for the woman I chose to build a life with.
Then came a sentence that made my hands go cold.
Do not allow Ashford near the first restaurant. They already tried once, through family, and they will try again.
