“You’re taking our inheritance!” Daniel shouted.
“Enough!” Thomas said.
The room went still.
Then he reached for the recorder.
“There is one final instruction.”
Daniel leaned back. “Finally.”
Arthur’s voice came through again.
“If you’re hearing this… Kylie kept the house. Good. I knew she would. That decision tells me everything I needed to know.”
Claire frowned.
“There is one final instruction.”
Arthur continued.
“I wasn’t always the man you knew. There was a time I built something huge, sold it, and became a billionaire. I gave most of it away to charity over the years. But I kept some.”
Daniel sat up straighter, looking surprised.
Mark frowned. “What is he—”
“Kylie,” Arthur’s message continued, “if you chose to keep that house… then you understood what mattered. And because of that, the rest of my money is now yours. My children… I waited years for you to see me. But I couldn’t wait forever. She did.”
No one moved.
“I wasn’t always the man you knew.”
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