“She knew about the diagnosis. She knew she didn’t have much time left.”

“And she wanted you to have full legal guardianship of the twins if anything happened to her.”

A cold shock ran down my spine, leaving me completely numb.

“She wanted me?” I breathed.

“Yes,” Daniel said. “She wrote that you were their mother in every way that mattered.”

“She wanted your name on the trust, Sarah. She wanted you to stay in this house, with them, forever.”

My eyes stung with tears, and I pressed my face into Lucas’s soft hair.

“But Vance told me she wanted me gone,” I whispered. “He told me there was no place for me here.”

“Because he lied,” Daniel said, his voice dropping to a harsh, angry growl.

“I just confronted him in the executive suite.”

“He was sitting there with the merger papers, waiting for the pre-meeting to start.”

“I threw the diary on his desk,” Daniel said.

I could picture Daniel, his tall frame towering over the polished mahogany table, his face dark with fury.

“He tried to tell me it was for my own good,” Daniel said.