I looked at the watch, then at the security camera above us. “Keep talking.”
Eleanor leaned closer. “You signed away your leverage. By Monday, even your name will be removed from the foundation.”
Across the room, an auction specialist opened Daniel’s mahogany document case. Inside were the blue-sealed certificates Eleanor needed.
Her eyes gleamed.
“Those,” she ordered. “Add them to tomorrow’s court submission.”
Marcus whispered, “She took the bait.”
“No,” I said. “She built the hook.”
That evening, the compliance trust’s investigator delivered a preliminary report. Eleanor and Victor had siphoned seventeen million dollars through fake consulting contracts, then backdated Daniel’s signatures after his cancer medication had left him unconscious.
Worse, they had attempted to use those forged documents to seize assets already pledged as collateral to the company’s employee pension fund.
The moment Eleanor filed them, the matter stopped being a family inheritance dispute. It became attempted bank fraud, pension theft, and conspiracy.