Chapter 4 - Lenora Warns Her Son Against Dangerous Legal Traps
Across town, Lenora sat in the dimly lit kitchen of her modest suburban townhouse, stirring a cup of cold tea. The small apartment felt suffocatingly quiet compared to the grandeur of the Bellamy estate she had tried to infiltrate.
Her phone buzzed loudly on the laminate countertop, displaying Julian’s caller ID flashing in the dark. Lenora swiped to answer immediately, her voice sharp with maternal anxiety. "Did you talk to her, Julian?"
"She thinks she might be pregnant, Mother," Julian's voice whispered frantically through the phone line. Lenora dropped her spoon against the ceramic mug, spilling dark liquid across the table.
"Are you out of your mind?!" Lenora hissed into the receiver. "If Audrey is pregnant, you can't just manipulate her into signing over the Bellamy assets!" Julian scoffed on the other end, sounding arrogant and dismissive.
"If she has my child, those assets legally belong to our family anyway," Julian argued stubbornly. "You spent twenty years trying to get a piece of Richard Bellamy's fortune, and now I have a direct path."
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"Audrey is not her mother; she won't hesitate to destroy you if she smells a rat," Lenora warned, her hands trembling over the table. "You need to walk away from her right now before it's too late."
"I'm not walking away from anything," Julian snapped before abruptly ending the call. Lenora buried her face in her hands, realizing her son was walking straight into a trap of his own making.
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