Chapter 5 - Unmasking Sabrina’s Deception

Graham dropped his phone onto the table, his hands shaking as he looked at the official court stamps on the documents.
"Audrey... you can't do this," he stammered, stepping toward me. "This is my father's company. You're just the expansion director."
"Your father left fifty-one percent controlling interest to me, Graham," I said, my voice cutting through the room like a razor blade.
"The documents you hid in the company vault were cleared by Arthur Vance three hours ago. You aren't the owner. You're just an employee who has been caught stealing from the register."
Sabrina rushed forward, her eyes wide with a desperate, animalistic rage. "You think you can just throw us out? Theo is a Keller! He has a right to this home!"
"Theo is the son of a marketing assistant who used a forged corporate identity to open shell accounts in Delaware," I replied smoothly, pulling up the data logs on my secondary tablet.
"The three million dollars you transferred from the Seattle project was used to pay off your personal debts in Manhattan. That's a grand larceny charge, Sabrina. Not a family dispute."
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Lorraine sank back into her chair, her face turning an ashen, sickly shade of grey as the reality of her absolute ruin finally settled into the room.
The pride she had carried for decades had vanished in the span of a single financial audit, leaving behind nothing but an old woman who had chosen the wrong side.