Chapter 14

Celeste found out on a Thursday. I know because Diana called me at 9:14 AM and said, "The second will has been filed with the probate court. Celeste's lawyers were notified twenty minutes ago. I'd describe the reaction as 'volcanic.'" I almost felt sorry for her. Almost. Celeste contested the will immediately, of course. She claimed her father was mentally incapacitated, that the document was forged, that I had somehow manipulated a man I'd never met into disinheriting his own daughter. The...