Before officers approached her, Dominic found a letter Evelyn had hidden in a locked drawer at the townhouse. She wrote that years earlier she had promised my father she would protect me and preserve the life he had built. According to Evelyn, Claire had slowly made me softer by persuading me to cancel meetings, question old household decisions, consider selling family properties, and imagine leaving Boston. What I saw as building a marriage, Evelyn had interpreted as the destruction of the man my father raised.
The letter became even darker
