He looked away. “Yes.”
“And that’s why you desperately wanted a son.”
“It’s more complicated.”
“Is it?”
Why Richard left his fortune to our daughters?
Mark rubbed his forehead. “Dad always said the family business needed a male heir. He made me believe having a boy was the only way to secure our future.”
“And when we discovered we were having two girls?”
“I panicked.”
“So you abandoned them.”
“I made a mistake!”
Having a boy was the only way to secure our future.
“A three-year mistake?”
He said nothing.
“Your father didn’t see it that way.”
“What?”
“He spent his whole life demanding a grandson. Then he watched you abandon three daughters because they weren’t boys.”
You abandoned them.
“Don’t pretend you knew Dad better than I did.”
“I know he changed his will.”
Mark went still.
“He left his money to Joan, Ginny, and Debbie. Not you.”
“That money should’ve been mine!”
