Chapter 12 - A Second Hidden Document Appears In The Home Safe
Emily walked over to the desk, placing her hand gently on Ryan’s trembling shoulder as she looked down at the papers.
“She said it was all part of the corporate takeover... but there’s something else we need to find,” Emily said urgently.
“What else could possibly be left? We found the cameras, the trust fund, and the poison reports,” Ryan groaned.
“When the fire department cleared our master bedroom, the heavy metal floor safe survived beneath the ash,” Emily reminded him.
Ryan nodded slowly, standing up from the desk and walking over to a cardboard box resting in the room's corner.
He lifted the heavy steel lockbox retrieved from the charred ruins of their suburban home earlier that morning.
Using the mechanical emergency key, Ryan popped the latch open and lifted the heavy steel lid upward.
Inside lay a single, yellowed parchment envelope sealed with a red wax stamp bearing the family crest.
Ryan broke the wax seal, sliding out a folded legal document dated just days before his father’s fatal collapse.
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It was a handwritten codicil disinheriting Diane entirely and naming an unexpected individual as sole estate trustee.
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