Betrayal Between the vows
she added, almost too quietly, “found out what they were doing. What the Wards had buried in the trust. He wanted to expose them. Days later, he was dead. Heart attack, they claimed.”
Lucas stared at her. “And you believed that?”
“I believed enough to stay quiet,” she said. “I wasn’t going to lose you too.”
He sat back, shaken to his core. “Why now?”
She turned, reached for a leather folder on the table. Held it out to him.
“Because you’ve already chosen him. So go into that war armed.”
Lucas took it, hands trembling. The folder was old. The edges cracked. Inside were letters. Photographs. Legal documents, brittle and yellowing with time. At the bottom of one page, handwritten in ink:
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