“We sent a formal letter by certified mail in January,” she said. “To your home address in Arlington Heights. Then we followed up by phone in February when we didn’t hear back.”
“Who signed for the certified letter?”
There was a pause while she pulled up the file. “The return receipt was signed by N. Carter. January 9th.”
Nate had known about the inheritance for three months before I did. He’d opened the letter, read it, and never said a word. He let me hear about it from Patricia in February and act surprised. And somewhere in those three months, he’d figured out that the man who’d secretly divorced his wife had no claim to her fifty million dollars.
So he booked a ballroom and planned to marry me again.
Elena moved fast after that.
She filed the petition to vacate the divorce judgment in Cook County Circuit Court the following Wednesday, with my sworn affidavit, my hospital admission records for June 14th, and a sample of my real signature from my driver’s license and recent work documents.
