The legal filing had a date on it.
I found this out from Callum, who found it from the estate attorney, who confirmed it with the particular neutrality of someone delivering information that carried significant implications.
Damien had filed the contest against the second clause on the same day his attorney had surfaced it.
Three weeks ago.
Before the phone call I had overheard. Before his conversation with whoever had been on the other end of that study call. Before my conversation with Callum, before the information reached me, before I sat in the kitchen turning the sentence over in the silence.
He had found out about the clause and his first action, before any conversation with me, before any decision about how to handle it or when to disclose it, had been to try to kill it.
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