Chapter 7
The Bloodline Built On Lies
“This is my mother,” Clara whispered, tears welling in her eyes as she stared at the black-and-white photograph.
“My father told everyone she died of leukemia when I was four years old.”
I leaned over her shoulder, reading the official coroner’s report attached to the inside cover of the confidential folder.
The cause of death was listed as acute arsenic poisoning, signed by none other than a young Dr. Mercer thirty years prior.
Beneath the medical reports lay the true prize—the original holographic will of Silas Vance, written in dark blue ink.
The will explicitly stated that the entire eighty-million-dollar Vancewood estate was left exclusively to Clara’s mother and her biological bloodline.
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Arthur Vance was merely a hired asset manager who had married into the family, possessing zero legal claim to the vast wealth he displayed.
To secure his control over the fortune, Arthur had murdered his wife and systematically fabricated Clara’s mental illness to keep her locked away.
