The morning of the wedding, someone leaked the story.
I found out at six forty-seven, while the estate was still in the specific quiet of an early Sunday, before the caterers arrived and before Vivian descended from the guest suite and before the children woke with the particular energy of people who understood that today was significant without fully knowing why.
The notification came through the Knight Holdings media alert system, which Vivian had set up on my phone six months ago because she had decided that if the company's public narrative was going to be managed correctly, the Chief Legal Officer needed to know about it before the general public did.
The headline: KNIGHT BILLIONAIRE AND PRESCOTT BLOOD: THE SECRET FAMILY CONNECTION THAT REWRITES CALIFORNIA HISTORY.
The article was
