I stared at her.
“He couldn’t.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re not Arthur Vale’s biological descendant.”
I felt offended for half a second before I understood.
“Lily.”
Claire nodded.
“And the baby.”
The room seemed to close around me.
“Jack transferred his claim?
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“He formally established paternity and named both children as beneficiaries.”
“But the baby hasn’t been born.”
“The trust allows descendants conceived before the beneficiary’s death.”
My hand tightened over my stomach.
“Then how much?”
“If the claim succeeds…”
She paused.
“Your children could inherit Jack’s entire portion.”
Over two hundred million dollars.
Lily was asleep twenty feet away holding a rabbit with one ear.
And apparently she might be worth more money than everyone I had ever known combined.
I should have felt relief.
Instead, I felt terrified.
Because suddenly Jack’s final decision made sense.
He hadn’t been hiding money from us.
