allowed to give you this envelope.”
“Why?”
The lawyer stared at me silently for several seconds.
Then he slowly pushed the envelope toward me.
“Because he wanted to see whether, even after his death, you would do exactly what he predicted you would do. And Laura… you just did.”
My heart began pounding.
“What did I do?”
He simply pointed at the envelope.
“Open it. But I should warn you—after you do, everything you thought you knew about William is going to change.”
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With trembling hands, I picked up the envelope.
And when I pulled out the first thing inside, my breath caught in my throat.
I recognized it.
But I couldn’t understand how William could possibly have had it.
For several seconds, I just stared at the envelope.
William’s lawyer, Mr. Harris, sat across from me looking strangely calm.
“If I inherited nothing,”
