“I know.”
“Then why did you bring it to me?”
His expression changed.
“Because she said you deserved to know who you married.”
The words struck me harder than I expected.
For a long time, I couldn’t speak.
Then I gathered the papers and placed them back inside the envelope.
“I need to think.”
Jake nodded.
“I understand.”
I stood, carrying the envelope to my office.
For the next hour, I sat at my desk and tried to make sense of what I had learned.
There were explanations that could make the documents look different.
There were facts I didn’t know.
There was a chance Melissa had misunderstood what happened.
I wasn’t going to condemn Tom based on a photocopied letter and a bank transfer.
But I also couldn’t ignore them.
The man I had trusted with my future might have built part of his success using money that belonged to his own sister and her child.
