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Greg suggested that for other heirs, the MC knowing their conditions could disqualify them:This is where we differ. I don't like Elaine. If she truly cared, why did she throw MC out? if she knows the will conditions, which she seems to know, then setting you up with Monica and the girls also puts you in line to lose the rest of your inheritance. It puts her almost solely in control of your financial future, because you'd lose everything and if she keeps the house, it sets her up to dole the money to you at her discretion. Kind of a dick move, whether she means well or not.
You have so much direct interaction with her that nobody else can witness that there's no reason for her to not have told you her specific will conditions, especially if she means well. The two of you could team up and game the system (if you trust her) and make out like bandits. But she doesn't. She doesn't extend the trust or honesty at all, but makes outrageous demands that you (MC) have to do it for her.
Given that Donald wants to control the actions of these people, preventing them from coordinating does seem plausible. It's possible Elaine legitimately can't risk going into detail if she isn't sure the MC would have her back.
As for her emailing Monica, I think you're overstating how costly that was for the MC. Even if Monica never emailed him, the MC would still have had to avoid contracting them for 1+ years to claim any of the money. That might have been easier if he never started living with them again, but any MC that doesn't want to leave them probably would have sought them out on his own anyway. Donald certainly thought that was likely.
At any rate, it doesn't remotely put Elaine in charge of the MC's financial future since it neither alters his conditions nor does it do anything to stop him from making a decision either way. And besides, if Elaine really wanted the MC to stay with Monica, why bother asking his other friends for help too? If the MC manages to track this back to Elaine she'll look guilty either way, and it maximizes the chance that the MC will realize someone hacked his email in the first place.
I'm not saying Elaine's treatment of the MC has been good, it hasn't. I just think there's good reason to believe some of her worst behavior isn't about screwing the MC out of his inheritance but about trying to keep her own.
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How on earth are we supposed to interpret those percentages if they don't sum up to 100%? What does it mean to say you're 75% sure Bella is the gold digger if you also say the chance she isn't the gold digger isn't 25%Read my post again my friend, I did not say to add the probabilities... those were my guestimate probabilities.
I disagree there's legitimate doubt. There's some speculation based on a line by Bella about something she (supposedly) learned from Elaine's research. Even ignoring the provenance of this particular rumor, the notion that the MC's mom somehow faked her pregnancy AND that this never came up during her acrimonious divorce with Donald is extremely implausible. I think there are better odds Monica is the third heir, and I've already dismissed that possibility as too unlikely to worry about.Next, there is now legitimate doubt that the biological mother, was not the mother he lived with till he was 8 years old, he is now trying to find out who his birth mother for sure is. Monica is cagey about it, but probably knows the true answer. Which leads to that speculation.