The Stripping Heiress
The room thickened
“Additionally, I leave to Agnes my compass, may she always know true north, and to Debra, I leave my wedding ring, may she love as wholly and steadfastly as I loved her mother.”
Another pause, more painful than the last.
“Go on.” That came from Agnes’s husband.
“To each of my daughters,” Mr. Smith read slowly, “beyond that already stated, I leave a one-time inheritance of fifty thousand dollars.”
Fifty thousand dollars? I’d no sooner thought those words that Agnes’s husband echoed out loud.
George Lachaln left his daughters less than he left his security detail.
Suddenly, Debra’s reference to Julian as the heir apparent took on a whole new meaning.
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