Chapter 13 - Thomas’s Final Message Changes Nothing
A second video from Thomas surfaced during the document review.
It was addressed to Claire.
Thomas apologized for using her identity.
He said he had convinced himself the account would never harm her.
He described Richard as a good man burdened by a bad inheritance.
Then he asked Claire to keep the family together if possible.
Claire stopped the video.
Rebecca asked whether she wanted to finish.
“No.”
Thomas had been dead four years.
He did not get a vote in Claire’s marriage.
She did eventually watch the remainder.
Not because she owed him.
Because she wanted the complete record.
Thomas ended by admitting the sentence he had written earlier was true
about himself too.
He called secrecy protection when it was really fear.
Claire archived the video with the legal records.
She did not keep a personal copy.
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An apology could matter.
It did not have to become an heirloom.
