I came in off the terrace and I did not sit down.
"The trust."
Damian's face did not change, which was itself the answer.
"Yes," he said.
"You knew."
"I knew before I offered you the contract. I knew when Ferris put that laminated folder on the tray table." His hands were flat on the blanket. "Elena, ask the next question. Don't stop there, it's the wrong place to stop."
"Did you try to stop it?"
"On the thirteenth, at nine in the morning, four hours before we married, I had Ilana on the phone for fifty minutes." He met my eyes without a flicker. "Under the instrument a spouse cannot disclaim in advance. There's no mechanism. My father wrote it in 1994 specifically so that a wife couldn't be pressured into signing away a block during a marriage, which — and I want you to
