My breath caught in my throat. It was a will, completely different from the one Natalie had found. My eyes scanned the document, the legal jargon blurring until I found what I was looking for: my name, listed as the primary beneficiary. Richard had left everything to me. The house, the savings, even the small business he had nurtured for years—it was all supposed to be mine.
A wave of emotions crashed over me: relief, anger, confusion. Why had Richard hidden this? And why had Natalie and Andrew lied about the existence of another will? My heart ached at the thought of them deceiving me, but the evidence was irrefutable.
