“I walked into my own mansion expecting my wife to run into my arms, but instead I found my family celebrating my money while the woman I loved was missing.

and the room seemed to fade around me.

Danny,

If you are reading this, then either I have found the courage to tell you myself, or someone else has decided you deserve the truth after I am gone.

My breath stopped.

Emma stepped closer but did not touch me.

I kept reading.

The letter spoke of a loan my father had taken years before, not for himself, but to save Margaret from a debt connected to her brother. It spoke of a deed placed temporarily in another name. It spoke of a promise that certain properties were to be protected for me and, one day, for the woman I chose to build a life with.

Then came a sentence that made my hands go cold.

Do not allow Ashford near the first restaurant. They already tried once, through family, and they will try again.