“It won’t. We have his signature, a doctor, and witnesses.”
“You have confidence.”
“We have everything.”
She did not know my trust contained a fraud-trigger clause: any beneficiary participating in coercion or forgery lost every future distribution automatically. Ethan had never seen it. Celeste’s forged amendment had activated it against Vanessa herself.
Behind her, Miriam entered the ballroom with two detectives and a woman from the state banking bureau.
Vanessa didn’t see them.
I smiled. “No, sweetheart. You have evidence.”
PART 3
Vanessa followed my gaze and finally saw Miriam.
The color drained from her face.
Celeste recovered first. “Richard invited his lawyer to his son’s wedding. How touching.”
Miriam walked onto the stage and took the microphone from Gerald’s hand.
“This celebration is now a potential crime scene,” she said.