The heading read Declaration of Trust, Cedar Point Holdings. Dated 2018, it stated that the aluminum hull, number AL-84-0417, was the legal key to the trust, and that whoever held the boat’s title held everything inside it. My name sat alone on the beneficiary line. Gus folded his hands. “Your dad found something in his books,” he said quietly. “He never told you, because he was afraid she would hear.”

I turned the page, and the figure at the bottom made the room tilt: $3.8 million, in an account the will never mentioned. Then Gus lowered his voice. “Kenny, she came here yesterday, before I called you. She asked for this file. I told her it was sealed.” Outside the window, a white sedan rolled into the lot, and Marcia stepped out wearing her black sunglasses.