Adrian said:
“This was supposed to be simple.”
“What?”
Margaret asked.
“A marriage?”
“A transfer?”
Adrian’s voice dropped.
“She wasn’t supposed to get this sick.”
Thomas replied:
“That is useful.”
“No.”
“It makes incapacity believable.”
Then came the real plan.
Not murder.
Not yet.
Something more sophisticated.
Thomas had creditors.
Huge ones.
He had spent years borrowing against failing investments and hiding losses from Margaret.
Adrian knew.
Margaret knew.
Their family was nearly bankrupt.
But Adrian had married into one of the wealthiest private families in the region.
Before the wedding, he convinced me to sign an “emergency marital continuity package.”
I remembered it.
Pages reviewed by a lawyer Adrian recommended.
I had believed the documents simply allowed him to make medical and travel decisions if I was incapacitated.
Apparently an attached authorization let him initiate movement from a Mercer family liquidity reserve if two conditions were met:
