Chapter 6 - Margaret Admits Knowing About David
Margaret arrived with her attorney.
She did not deny it.
Henry confessed the affair shortly before his death.
He told Margaret that David existed and that he had quietly funded his education.
Margaret was devastated.
She never told Daniel.
After Henry died, David contacted her.
He wanted acknowledgment, not money.
At least that was how it began.
Margaret met him twice.
Then refused further contact because she feared public scandal.
Years later Victoria discovered correspondence in Margaret’s desk.
She contacted David herself.
Margaret learned about it only recently.
Daniel asked why she said nothing.
“I thought if I ignored it, it would disappear.”
Daniel almost laughed.
Nothing in his family disappeared.
It merely waited.
Margaret insisted she never helped Victoria target Noah.
Investigators found no evidence she had.
But her secrecy gave Victoria the opening.
David’s messages revealed growing resentment.
He believed Daniel had inherited the life Henry denied him.
Victoria fed that resentment.
She told David the Cole trust had stolen his birthright.
In reality, Henry’s will included a sealed provision.
If David ever established paternity, he was entitled to a separate inheritance.
Not Daniel’s.
Not Noah’s.
David had never been told.
Margaret had hidden that too.
Daniel stared at his mother.
“You kept money from him?”
“I kept the entire truth from him.”
The distinction was worse.
Then the family attorney opened Henry’s sealed provision.
It contained a letter to David.
And another to Daniel.
Henry had intended both sons to learn the truth after his death.
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The attorney, Charles Sloan, had never delivered either letter.
When Daniel demanded why, Sloan stopped answering calls.
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