MY HUSBAND’S CHILDREN SPENT A DECADE TELLING EVERYONE I ONLY MARRIED HIM FOR THE HOUSE — AFTER HIS FUNERAL, HIS ATTORNEY HANDED ME A LOCKED BOX.

MY HUSBAND’S CHILDREN SPENT A DECADE TELLING EVERYONE I ONLY MARRIED HIM FOR THE HOUSE — AFTER HIS FUNERAL, HIS ATTORNEY HANDED ME A LOCKED BOX.

INSIDE WAS THE PROOF OF WHAT I’D REALLY DONE FOR ELEVEN YEARS — THE SECRET FRANK KEPT TO PROTECT HIS OWN CHILDREN FROM THE TRUTH.

PART 1

My husband’s children spent a decade telling everyone I only married him for the house — after his funeral, his attorney handed me a locked box.

My name is Patricia, and I married my husband, Frank, eleven years ago, three years after his first wife passed away.

His two adult children, Brad and Stephanie, made their opinion of me clear from the very first Thanksgiving machen.