Chapter 13 - SERENA’S LETTER
Serena wrote after completing part of her sentence and treatment.
Through attorneys first.
Then, once legally permissible, one letter addressed to me.
I read it.
She wrote:
I believed becoming your wife meant securing a place nobody could take away. Ethan’s attachment to Lily made me feel replaceable.
Then:
I treated his fear as something I could use to make myself necessary.
No excuse.
Finally.
She apologized for assaulting Lily.
For harming Ethan.
For manipulating the estate-planning process toward her own security.
She also wrote:
Grant told me repeatedly that independent review was required. I kept trying to make that feel like an insult instead of a safeguard.
That mattered.
Not everyone around Serena failed.
Grant had done his job.
Rachel had done hers.
Lily had tried.
The system had contained several safeguards.
I had nearly overridden them because I wanted emotional simplicity.
May you like
I did not respond.
Forgiveness did not require correspondence.
