Chapter 24

In the days that followed, Stanley calmly and methodically arranged everything. He summoned his team of lawyers and financial advisors, donating the vast majority of his assets, including the immense shares of Frey Group, countless properties, and enormous sums of cash to the country's top cancer research institutes and women and children's aid foundations. He kept only a small portion, enough to ensure that the long-time employees of the Frey family could live out their remaining years in comfort and security. He personally wrote his will. It was simple and merciless to the extreme. He wanted his body to be cremated and buried with Tessa's at Evercrest Cemetery, right beside Alexis' grave. The tombstone was to bear only their names and dates of birth and death. No epitaph, no achievements, no words of mourning. On a night stripped of moonlight, with the stars dim and silent above, he put on the carefully preserved suit he had worn at his wedding with Tessa. The suit still carried