Chapter 9 - The Final LetterOne year after the trial, they returned to the cemetery.
Ava placed a new set of flowers on Lara’s grave. Theo watched from a distance, giving them their moment.
He pulled out the very first letter Lara had left him, the one that had changed everything. He reread the final, hidden paragraph on the back of the page—the one he had missed in his initial grief.
“P.S. Theo, check the safety deposit box at the bank on 5th Street. I left you the one thing you actually needed to win.”
He checked the box the next day.
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It was a master patent for a breakthrough in genetic sequencing—a discovery he and Lara had theorized about together years ago, before the bitterness set in.
It was worth more than his entire company.
