Part 2: My millionaire husband left me nothing in his will after 48 years of marriage except a note with an address — when I arrived there, what I saw made me fall to my knees.

Evelyn continued.

“And he's submitted an affidavit alleging that Julian Mercer helped Thomas manufacture a false family history to divert the estate.”

Julian went pale.

I gripped the phone.

“That's a lie.”

“We'll challenge it. But Margaret, there's something else.”

“What?”

Evelyn paused.

“Raymond says he has documents proving that Thomas was never Julian's biological father.”

I looked at the notebook.

At the words Thomas had written.

He knows why I signed the certificate.

And for the first time, I wondered whether the greatest secret of my husband's life had nothing to do with an affair.

What if Thomas had put his name on that birth certificate for an entirely different reason?

CHAPTER 5: THE LETTER FROM FORTY-SIX YEARS AGO EXPOSED THE MAN MY HUSBAND HAD BEEN PROTECTING

The next morning, I met with an independent attorney named Celia Ross.

She was a woman in her sixties, with short silver hair and the kind of direct manner I'd always appreciated in my former students.