“They’re threatening me for telling the truth?”
I sat beside her at the kitchen table.
“Let the attorney handle it.”
Her lawyer, Amanda Brooks, reviewed the letter and asked Chloe to forward every message, photograph, and document she had received.
Within days, Amanda uncovered something neither Chloe nor I had known.
The inheritance wasn’t simply a promise Richard had made to his son.
It was part of a formal succession arrangement involving Hayes Industrial Group, the family business Richard had spent decades building.
And three months earlier, Spencer had signed a personal agreement acknowledging that any deliberate fraud involving family assets would disqualify him from receiving a controlling interest in the company.
It had been designed to protect the business from misconduct.
Spencer had signed it without reading the final provisions carefully.
His father had insisted on the clause after an unrelated financial scandal involving another executive.
The document had nothing to do with the baby’s gender.
