A Wicked Lie by M. S. Parker

Author:M. S. Parker [Parker, M. S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Erotic, Thriller
Publisher: Belmonte Publishing, LLC
Published: 2015-08-08T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Going to see Mr. Henley wasn’t as bad as I’d thought it would be. Aside from the funeral, it had been a couple years since I’d seen him and there was a bit more salt in his salt-and-pepper hair now. A few more wrinkles too, but his light brown eyes were as sharp and intelligent as ever. He greeted me with sympathy, but no pity, and he didn’t ask me how I was doing. That made the whole process that followed a bit easier to handle.

He didn’t actually read the will, so I didn’t have to hear things Allen had said read in someone else’s voice, but Henley had compiled a list of each item in the will and who it had been left to. Aside from some money being donated to a charity or two that Allen had particular interest in, everything else had been left to me. With one exception. A million dollars of the money in Allen’s trust had been set aside for Jasper. It hadn’t been earmarked in any special way, but I knew it was meant for the clinic.

“Mr. Henley,” I asked suddenly. “When did Allen last come in to update his will?”

If he was surprised by my question, he didn’t show it. “A week before...” His voice trailed off and I didn’t need him to finish his thought.

A week before. I wasn’t going to ask, but I bet that one of the changes – maybe the only one – Allen had made had been for Jasper. He’d known about Jasper’s desire to start a clinic, but when he’d found out that his friend still wanted it, he’d made sure it would be possible, even if something happened to him.

Mr. Henley also had for me a stack of legal injunctions that the Lockwoods had filed, freezing all of my assets as well as Allen’s trust. I didn’t care about the trust, but they’d also had our joint bank accounts frozen. Before I could recover enough from the shock to have a more violent reaction, he assured me that he had an appointment to see a judge later that afternoon to get at least the checking account unfrozen. All I needed to do was provide proof that I’d deposited my own income into that same account. Thanks to direct deposit and online checking, it was easy enough to do just that. I was still fuming, but he assured me that the checking account would be functional again by tomorrow at the latest.

Everything else, however, would be a bit more difficult. Even if I had the will read now, the Lockwoods wouldn’t drop their suit because they’d gotten nothing. I felt the worst for Jasper though. The money he needed to quit his father’s practice and start the clinic he wanted was sitting right there. Allen would’ve given it to Jasper when he’d been alive if he’d thought for a moment that his friend would take it, and I was sure Allen had been working on a way to get it to him anyway.

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