After signing the divorce papers, my mother-in-law gave me 24 hours to leave. I opened the safe, grabbed documents, and called a luxury car. She sneered, “Trying to show off now?” I smiled. “Tomorrow, you’ll understand exactly why.”

a blueprint.

They had no idea that the documents capable of changing everything had been sitting only a few rooms away for years.

I walked toward the large oak bookshelf beside my drafting table and pushed it aside.

Behind it was a gray biometric safe mounted into the wall.

I pressed my thumb to the scanner and entered the code my late grandmother, Nana Rose, had taught me long ago.

The light turned green.

The safe opened.

There was no jewelry inside.

No stacks of cash.

Nothing Eleanor would have