Chapter 4: The Legal Guillotine
"What is that?" Daniel whispered, his voice trembling as he backed toward the wall.
"This," Eleanor said, slapping the document onto the foyer table, "is the termination of your power of attorney, the freezing of your personal trust, and the transfer of your shares in Blackwood Corp back to Sarah and myself."
Daniel lunged for the paper, but his mother held up a hand. Two men in dark suits—actual, federal-level security—stepped out from behind the foyer curtains.
"You signed a prenup," Sarah said, stepping closer to her husband. "A prenup that included a morality clause. By bringing a mistress into our home and conspiring to embezzle from the corporation, you triggered an immediate forfeiture of all marital assets. The house is mine. The car is mine. The company is mine."
Daniel felt the floor beneath him tilt. "You can’t do this! I’m your son!"
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"You’re a liability," Eleanor said, her voice as hard as diamond. "I didn't raise a thief. Sarah, however, I raised in spirit. She has the Blackwood steel. You? You’re just cheap iron."
The realization hit Daniel with the force of a wrecking ball. He hadn't won. He had been managed, observed, and discarded by the two smartest women he had ever known.
