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Chapter 2 - The Dead Man's IdentityRebecca sat down across from me, her hands trembling as she set a stack of legal papers on the mahogany table.

“Nathan doesn't marry women for love, Clara,” Rebecca said softly, her voice filled with deep, haunting empathy. “He targets single women with inherited real estate or sole ownership of private businesses.”

Investigator Aaron Pike turned a document toward me—a copy of the pre-marital financial addendum I had signed three days before the wedding.

My stomach turned to lead.

Tucked into the standard marital property agreement was a fraudulently altered clause: Upon marriage registration, all individual assets held under the Bennett Family Trust immediately transfer into a joint corporate entity managed exclusively by Evan Mercer and Diane Mercer.

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Nathan and his mother hadn't just used a dead man's identity to marry me; they were using an unrecorded marriage license to trick me into surrendering my late father’s four-million-dollar estate before the marriage was legally invalidated!

“If you drive to that isolated beach house today,” Rebecca warned, her eyes burning into mine, “they will force you to execute the final property deeds before you discover his real name.”

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