“How long have you known?” I asked.
“Always. Until you came of age, I was the one taking care of the other half.”
“Why didn’t my father have this deed?”
“Your grandfather hated Adeline. And after your father divorced your mother and married her anyway, I think this was his way of saying, ‘f**k you.’”
“So he left it directly to me, and until I reached the eligible age, you were its guardian.”
Killian nodded.
I looked down at the document in my hands. This was a lot to wrap my mind around. Seeing my silence, he started driving. I closed the file. Something like this—something this important—and he just put it in a file like it was nothing. Technically, he did tell me. He’s truly infuriating.
We returned to the restaurant where we had our lunch date. I took off my seatbelt, and he took
