Chapter 2: The Phone Call Nobody Knew About
Claire didn't look back once as she walked Evan through the gate.
But behind her, the yard erupted.
"You saw what she did to Diane!" one of the cousins shouted.
"Someone call Richard.
Call him right now."
Evan pressed close to Claire's side, still trembling.
She crouched down, wiped his face gently, and held both his hands steady.
"You did nothing wrong," she told him quietly.
"Not one thing."
He nodded, but his eyes kept drifting back toward the gate.
Inside, Diane had been helped to her feet.
Her face was red.
Her dress was ruined.
And the relatives who had been laughing minutes before were suddenly very quiet.
Then Richard Bennett appeared in the doorway.
He looked at Diane.
He looked at the scattered food on the stones.
He looked at the direction Claire had walked.
His expression didn't show anger.
It showed something colder.
Something calculated.
"Find out," he said to no one in particular, "exactly what Claire owns.
Every document.
Every account.
Everything in her name."
One of the younger men nodded and pulled out his phone.
Diane straightened her collar and smiled slowly.
"She made a mistake today," Diane said.
"A very expensive one."
None of them knew that Claire had already made a phone call of her own — forty minutes before she ever walked through that gate.
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What Claire set in motion before she even arrived at that celebration will leave the entire Bennett family with nothing to stand on.
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