Several executives, public officials and criminal intermediaries were indicted.
News outlets called it **the largest private intelligence leak in decades**.
Russell cooperated fully.
So did Margaret.
So did Hayes.
Rebecca accepted a plea agreement after providing evidence against the men who had
helped her sabotage the farmhouse.
And then came the will.
This time, nobody gathered in Hayes’s office.
We met in a hospital garden.
Russell sat beneath a tree with a blanket over his knees.
Cancer had weakened him.
But he was alive.
Claire sat on one side.
Daniel on the other.
I sat across from them.
Margaret stood behind me.
Hayes arrived slowly with a cane.
His shoulder had healed.
His relationship with me had not.
Not yet.
Russell held a folder.
“Since everyone spent years arguing about my money, I thought we might finally settle the matter.”
Claire groaned.
“Please don’t make this theatrical.”
