The Secret Mother of My Children and the Truth That Saved Us
It was Daniel’s voice, but it sounded different—breathless, strained, and filled with shock.
“Daniel? What is it?” I asked, my heart stopping.
“I’m at the office,” he whispered.
“I found her desk diary. The one they tried to shred.”
He paused, and I could hear the sound of paper rustling frantically in the background.
“Sarah, there’s another will.”
My fingers tightened around the receiver until my knuckles turned white.
“Another will?” I whispered.
On the other side of the bed, Lucas shifted his head against my shoulder, letting out a soft sigh.
“Evelyn wrote it two weeks before she died,” Daniel said, his breath rattling through the phone.
I could hear the rain heavy against his office windows, a dull, rhythmic drumming.
“She kept it in her locked vanity diary,” he continued. “The one Vance claimed was lost in the move.”
Harrison Vance was the family’s senior estate attorney, a man who had served the Whitmore family for thirty years.
“What does it say, Daniel?” I asked.
“It says everything, Sarah,” he said, using my real name with a quiet, aching reverence.