For several seconds, Harper did not move.
Dylan approached carefully.
“Do you want me to open the envelope with you?”
She nodded.
Inside were the cease-and-desist notice, the trust summary, and a letter Mara had drafted after reviewing the available records.
Evelyn’s trust had named Vivian as temporary trustee for two equal beneficiary accounts, one for Harper and one for Riley.
Each account was supposed to be distributed when the beneficiary turned twenty-five.
Harper was thirty-two.
She had received nothing.
According to the summary, her share had originally contained $96,000 in investments and partial ownership of Evelyn’s rental property.
Harper sat down
slowly.
Dylan read the page again.
“Could the money have been spent legally?”
“Possibly,” Harper said, though her voice sounded distant.
“But she would need records.”
Mara’s letter requested a full accounting from Vivian within fourteen days.
Harper thought of the years she had paid her mother’s mortgage.
