Chapter 10 - The Hidden Will
Two days later, while examining the legal documents recovered from Senator Montgomery’s private office during the police raid, Ethan’s lawyers discovered a hidden trust document executed by Maya Sterling two weeks before her death.
The document was not a simple letter; it was a legally binding private trust created using a small inheritance Maya had received from her maternal grandmother. In the document, Maya had named her newborn daughter as the sole heir to a private estate in Vermont—an estate that had originally belonged to the Montgomery family before the divorce thirty years ago.
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However, the trust contained a second clause that surprised even Ethan’s legal team: Maya had designated Ethan Vance as the legal guardian of the trust and the baby until Lily reached twenty-one years of age, specifically excluding Claire and Senator Montgomery from ever accessing the property or its funds.
Ethan held the document in his hands, reading his sister-in-law’s final wishes. Maya had known her time was short, and she had placed the fate of her child directly into the hands of the man who was supposed to become her brother-in-law, trusting his integrity over her own blood family.
