A rich man changes his will, disinherits his children, and leaves everything to a mysterious set of triplets — then his wife discovers who they are. Graham Carlyle changed his will, and no one was supposed to know — at least until he died. But as it happened, his lawyer’s son was dating his daughter and the cat was out of the bag. “What do you mean, we get nothing in the will?” gasped Caroline Carlyle, “Who is he leaving it all to?” So the lawyer’s son told Caroline who told her brother Ralph, and they decided to figure out who these heirs were, and went to the orphanage mentioned in the will,

The new heirs were Kyran, Kevin, and Kyle Manovich and to their astonishment, the three orphans were just four years old. One look at the three Manovich boys, who were identical exploded the mystery. “They’re dad’s kids!” said Caroline thoughtfully to her brother, “He cheated on Marcy!” The two were in the limousine on their way back to the office, and Ralph sipped at a Pelligrino from the bar. “Yes…Imagine Marcy’s reaction!” said Ralph. “The nuns said the boys were four, and that their mother died last year! The affair may have been ongoing…” Caroline’s smile was unpleasant in the extreme. “Oh,

I think daddy will do anything to keep his darling Marcy from finding out he knocked up another woman and leaving him. don’t you?” Marcy was the woman Caroline and Ralph’s father had married three years after their own mother had died from cancer. At first, Caroline and Ralph had welcomed her with ill grace. Marcy was lovely and loving, but she was also nearly 20 years younger than their father and had made no secret of her desire to become a mother. But the years passed,

and there had been no babies to reduce Caroline and Ralph’s share of the inheritance. Marcy had dragged their father to fertility specialists from New York to Geneva, but there was no baby, and eventually, one brave doctor told Marcy there never would be a baby. That had been five years ago, and Marcy had plunged into a deep depression tinged with grief. She had been a long time recovering and coming to terms with her infertility, and their father who loved his young wife would do anything to keep this information from Marcy…