He looked at me carefully.
“The lawyer found something she hadn’t expected.”
“What did he find?”
Jake took a breath.
“The money wasn’t the only thing Uncle Tom had hidden.”
My hands grew cold.
“What does that mean?”
Jake turned his phone toward me.
On the screen was a photograph of an old handwritten note, followed by a scanned legal document.
“I didn’t understand it at first,” he said. “But my mother explained everything.”
I read the note.
It was written by Tom’s father, Jake’s grandfather, shortly before he died.
The note referred to a trust established for Jake’s education and future. It named Tom as the person responsible for ensuring the money was protected until Jake became an adult.
The document beneath it showed that the trust had been altered years earlier.
I read the names again.
Then I looked at Jake.
“Your grandfather left you money?”
Jake nodded.
