Chapter 10 - The Revoked Will
Noah signed a new will three days before his fatal crash.
My goal was to find the original.
It stated:
No genetic material may be used after my death for reproductive purposes.
Any child created without explicit living consent shall receive protected support but no estate control rights.
That destroyed Nathan’s entire plan.
Lily and Caleb could receive support.
Not estate control.
Nathan could not access the forty million through them.
But the original will was never filed.
Nathan stole it from Dad’s safe-deposit box.
Dad had left a second envelope requiring my authorization.
The bank opened it under court supervision.
Inside was a copy of the revoked will.
Dad’s letter.
And a cassette tape.
Dad wrote that Noah Vale had been his closest friend in college.
After Noah died, Nathan tried to recruit Dad into preserving the Vale line.
Dad refused.
Years later, when I sought fertility treatment, Nathan saw his opportunity.
Dad discovered the illegal donor switch only after I became pregnant.
The cassette held Noah’s voice.
“If anything happens to me, destroy the samples.”
Nathan did not.
Then investigators reopened Noah’s car crash.
The brakes had failed.
The mechanic remembered Nathan picking up the vehicle after service.
An archived voicemail contained Nathan saying:
“You’ll sign the estate amendment tomorrow, or you won’t make it to Friday.”
Noah died Thursday night.
I thought Nathan’s crimes began with Dad—but evidence suggested the story started with his own brother’s death.
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The only living witness to Nathan near Noah’s car was their mother, Eleanor Vale.
She had been living three houses away from Amber under another name.
