Anthony answered.
“We don’t know.”
I looked at Victoria.
“When was the last contact?”
“Ten months ago.”
“What did he say?”
She hesitated.
“Read it.”
She gave me a printed email.
From David.
Subject:
BABY TRUST.
I read.
Ms. Duca,
I received the settlement documents.
Please place the funds in trust only after paternity is established.
Do not contact Elena yet.
She has enough problems because of me.
I know that sounds like I’m making another decision for her.
I probably am.
I’m trying to fix one thing without creating five more.
If I disappear again, give her the option to refuse all of this.
Do not make money into a reason she has to deal with me.
David.
I stared.
That sounded exactly like him.
Self-aware enough to know he made bad choices.
Still making them.
At the bottom:
And please tell whoever reviews the final audit that Marco
