“Let me be absolutely clear, Daniel, so you can be clear with yourself. There is no version of events where that woman touches this money. Not if you marry her. Not if the girls are adopted out. If the girls ever left your care, the trust would follow them to their new guardian. It would never, under any circumstance, flow to Jenna. Her entire plan is built on a house of air.”
I let out a breath I felt like I’d been holding for six months.
“I don’t just want her stopped,” I said. “I want everyone who’s ever smiled at her to know exactly who she is. Especially the girls, so they never spend one day wondering if they imagined it.”
Margaret looked at me for a long moment, then almost smiled.
“Then let’s make sure it’s airtight, and legal, and impossible to deny.”
Here is the thing Jenna never thought about.