Adi had been too numb to shut the woman up as she’d deserved, but she remembered those words. To this day she didn’t know what she had done to deserve the cold reception and cutting remarks from her own paternal grandmother. Her father had never talked about his family, and Adi hadn’t even known they existed until the day her whole life had changed.
She’d had to leave Germany because she couldn’t bear spending time in the city, where so many memories reminded her of what she’d lost. Finding out that a trust fund waited for her in the US, and that it allowed her to finish her education had been a godsend.
And now everything made sense. Diepger had been feeding information to her grandmother. Part of the testament stipulated that Adi would lose access to the trust if her mental illness eve
