Chapter 9 - The Second Recording Changes Everything
The second recording was worse.
Marcus said:
“Mom will back me. She’s terrified of losing the house.”
Harrison asked:
“Does she know why?”
Marcus answered:
“No. And she doesn’t need to.”
Mother stared at him across Rebecca’s office when we played it.
“What house?”
Marcus said nothing.
The answer came from the estate debt schedule.
The Grant family residence had been pledged as collateral for a loan.
Mother had not signed the pledge.
Father had not signed it.
Marcus had executed the transaction using a power-of-attorney document that had expired months earlier.
The loan funded one of Marcus’s failing acquisitions.
If the lender enforced its rights, Victoria could lose the home where she had lived for thirty-six years.
Marcus then convinced her that only his control of Grant Industrial could keep the estate solvent.
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He created the crisis.
Then presented himself as the only man capable of saving everyone from it.
