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“So you wanted to make losing us personally expensive for him,” I said.

Dad did not deny it.

Then I asked the question I should have asked earlier.

“Did Victor ever say the contract depended on Elliot and me?”

Silence.

Finally:

“No.”

The marriage plan had not come from Victor.

It had come from my father’s fear.

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