I Adopted the Wheelchair-Bound Sons of My Late Best Friend – 18 Years Later, My Husband Came to Me and Said, ‘I Have Proof They’ve Been Lying to You All This Time’

I frowned.

“You don’t know that.”

Leo leaned forward slightly.

“Yeah, we do.”

That stung.

“Why didn’t you just come to me?”

“Every time something comes up, something for you, you brush it off,” Leo continued. “You’d say it didn’t matter anymore.”

Sam added quietly, “You always choose us.” But the way he said it wasn’t accusing.

“And that’s not a bad thing,” Leo said quickly. “But it also means… you’ve stopped choosing yourself. So, we accessed your bank account; your details aren’t really a secret since they’re right there in the notebook by your bedside table.”

I didn’t have an answer for that.

Because I knew they weren’t wrong.

Sam reached for the laptop.

“There’s one more,” he said. “This is the last one we recorded.”

“You always choose us.”

Sam pressed play.

Leo’s voice came through first, and this time, it wasn’t steady.

“She gave up everything without asking for anything back.”

There was a pause.

Then Sam spoke, clear and firm.

“That’s why we won’t ask her. We’ll build it all up first, so all she has to do is say yes.”

Silence followed.

For a few seconds, there was no sound.