I closed my eyes briefly. Sophie had my eyes. Robert used to joke she had his stubbornness and my stare.
“I wanted to show you right away,” he continued, and now there was a crack in his calm, “but I knew it would hurt you even if you knew it was false. So I verified everything, hired Amanda, and asked Dad to activate the interior cameras before tonight.”
Walter blinked. “I thought it was because of the silver going missing.”
Robert looked at Claire. “That too.”
Claire’s composure finally broke. “Oh, please. You’re all acting like I committed some huge crime because I told the truth too soon.”
Amanda opened her briefcase and pulled out a file. “Actually, the issues appear to be defamation, fabrication of medical documents, attempted interference with estate distribution, and possibly financial misconduct, depending on what our forensic accountant confirms.”
Diane went pale. “Financial misconduct?”
Walter slowly turned toward his wife. “What is she talking about?”
No one answered.
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