We told Douglas the morning after the wedding, unable to justify hiding it any longer once Bryce warned that Calloway's team intended to request a formal deposition within days.
Douglas took the news with a tired, contemptuous laugh. "Undue influence. As though I've ever in my life been influenced into anything I didn't already want to do." He waved off Bryce's concerned look. "Let him depose me. I'll answer every question with more clarity than his lawyers expect, and enjoy watching them realize it."
The deposition, held in Douglas's own study rather than force him to travel, went exactly as he predicted. He answered each question about his estate planning with sharp, specific recall, his intentions for Nathaniel and Pearl laid out plainly as decisions made over years, not moments of we
