Chapter 14: Family Dinner
Nathaniel Cross had written that message four days before Lena Tao died.
I sat with that fact until the sky turned gray and the birds started chirping in the garden. I turned it over from every side I could think of.
Four days. Either Nathaniel knew she was about to die, or Lena was already seriously ill and they both understood the end was coming. They had been making arrangements. Arrangements that made sure Adrian would never learn what his mother’s company had been used for.
He doesn’t know. Keep it that way. When the time comes, he inherits the company, not the liability. That was always the arrangement.
The word “always” stood out. This wasn’t something decided in a hurry. It was an old agreement between Nathaniel and Lena. Maybe Dominic knew, maybe he
