The rest of them can fight over what I actually left them, which is the exact burden of their own greed.’ Lily carefully folded the letter and put it back in her purse. She stood up, picked up her coat, and walked out of the office without saying a single word to us.

Thomas, Caroline, and I remained frozen in our chairs in that suffocating lawyer’s office. We didn’t look at each other. We didn’t speak. There was nothing left to say. We were exactly where we deserved to be—bankrupt, trapped, and entirely alone.