When she died, my parents said she’d left very little.
They gave me a recipe box, an old watch, and a letter.
They claimed the remaining estate had been used for medical bills and other expenses.
I believed them.
Until three weeks before Paige entered my penthouse.
An attorney contacted me after receiving previously undisclosed financial records.
Among the documents was an amendment to Grandma’s trust.
It showed that she’d removed my parents from certain trustee responsibilities shortly before her death because she was concerned about pressure to change the beneficiaries.
There were also records suggesting that assets had been handled using outdated documents.
One email from my father to my mother was especially revealing.
Marissa doesn’t need it. Paige does.
I stared at that sentence for a long time.
For years, my parents had insisted I was responsible for helping my sister because I’d become successful.
