He had documents.
And his news concerned Claris’s estate.
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The lawyer’s name was Eduardo Salazar.
He had handled some of Claris’s legal affairs before her death.
Ricardo invited him into the office.
The girls were at school.
Luía was cleaning upstairs.
“What is this about?”
Eduardo placed a folder on the desk.
“Your wife left something.”
Ricardo frowned.
“What?”
“A letter.”
“For me?”
“Not exactly.”
Eduardo opened the folder.
“There are instructions regarding the children.”
Ricardo’s stomach tightened.
“What instructions?”
Eduardo handed him the document.
Claris had written it six months before her death.
Ricardo recognized her handwriting immediately.
His hands began shaking.
He read.
Then he stopped.
Read again.
The letter wasn’t about money.
It was about the girls.
Claris had written that if anything happened to her, Ricardo needed to understand that their daughters would not need someone to replace her.
They needed someone who would help them remember her without being trapped by grief.
