Chapter 15 - Richard Reveals Robert’s Final Letter
Richard found one last document while closing an old legal office.
A letter from Robert to Claire.
Never mailed.
Richard gave it to her unopened.
Claire waited a month before reading it.
Robert admitted he had manipulated ownership records.
He admitted lying about her death.
He admitted allowing Margaret to believe versions of events that
protected him.
He wrote that he loved Claire once.
Claire stopped reading for several minutes.
Love had become another word men in her past used as if feeling could
cancel conduct.
She finished the letter.
Robert asked forgiveness.
Claire folded it.
She did not burn it.
She did not frame it.
She donated it to the foundation archive with the rest of the historical
documents.
Margaret asked what the letter meant to her.
Claire answered:
“It means he knew.”
“Knew what?”
“That what he did was wrong.”
Margaret nodded.
“Does that help?”
May you like
“A little.”
That was enough.
