My ex-husband and I had been divorced for six years when he died, so I never expected to inherit anything from him. But when his attorney told me Daniel had left me the majority of his estate, even I couldn’t understand why. Then a package in Daniel’s handwriting arrived at my door.
My ex-husband died six years after our divorce.
And somehow, he left almost everything to me.
Not to his wife.
To me.
When his attorney called, I actually thought there had been some kind of mistake.
My ex, Daniel, had remarried three years after we separated. His wife, Caroline, was still married to him when he died. They lived together, traveled together, and from everything I could see, had a perfectly normal marriage.
Daniel and I barely spoke unless it involved our children.
So when the attorney said my name was listed as the primary beneficiary of his estate, I just sat there holding the phone.
“Are you sure?”
“Yes.”
“What about his wife?”
There was a pause.
“She is provided for separately. But the majority of the estate was left to you.”
That made even less sense.
Daniel and I had been married for 18 years.
When we met, neither of us had much.
I had a decent job in marketing.
Daniel had an idea for a small business and a level of confidence that I honestly admired back then.
For the first few years, the business made almost nothing.
So I worked.
I paid most of our bills. I handled the insurance. I stayed up at night helping him with invoices because he hated paperwork. When we had our first child, I went back to work much sooner than I wanted because we needed my salary.
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