Months went by without a single word from Helen. It was nearing Christmas. Matt and Rose saw each other much more often, and Dany was elated about that. Matt was beginning to give up the notion that Helen was ever coming back to get her. But in the event that she did, and now he wanted to weep when he thought of it, he wanted to give Danae a better future. Because her prospects were bleak with Helen, and she deserved better. One night while he and Rose sat outside the cabin with hot chocolate, watching Dany wrestle with Frost in the snow under the aurora borealis, Matt started thinking about changing his Will. He and Rose started discussing it.
The next day, he called his lawyer, or rather, his old partner in New York, who handled his assets.
“Good grief, I thought you’d disappeared off
