He didn’t walk over yet, but he stood by his door, watching us closely.

“Sign this,” Scott said, pulling a stapled document from the envelope.

He thrust it toward me, along with a black ballpoint pen.

I looked down at the title of the document.

It read: *Post-Nuptial Agreement and Separation Timeline Amendment*.

“What is this, Scott?” I asked.

“It’s a correction,” he said, his hand trembling slightly as he held the pen out to me. “It states that we mutually agreed to separate six months ago.”

“That is a lie,” I said. “We were living together in the same house six months ago.”

“It doesn’t matter,” he whispered, leaning in closer. “If you sign this, the probate court will clear the inheritance without a dispute.”

“I am not signing a fraudulent document,” I said.

“You don’t understand, Avery,” he said, his eyes wide and bloodshot. “The court is holding up everything. The estate lawyer is asking questions about our marriage timeline.”

He tapped the paper with his index finger.

“If we sign this, we both get what we want,” he said. “You get a cash buyout, and I get the rest of my grandmother’s estate. It’s simple.”