Chapter 9 - Tiffany Brought Margaret The Emails
Tiffany returned alone.
No Charles.
No mother.
No lawyer.
She looked exhausted.
“I have something.”
Margaret did not invite her inside immediately.
Tiffany handed her a flash drive.
Emails between Tiffany and Charles.
Margaret called Helen before opening anything.
They reviewed the material together.
The emails changed the story.
Tiffany had told Charles about Margaret’s increasing wedding spending.
Charles repeatedly asked whether Margaret had mentioned selling land.
At first, Tiffany answered casually.
Then Charles became specific.
KEEP PRESSURE OFF DANIEL. IF MARGARET NEEDS LIQUIDITY, LET HER REACH THE
IDEA HERSELF.
Tiffany replied:
SHE’S ALREADY TALKING ABOUT THE EAST SIDE.
Another email:
DON’T MENTION STONEBRIDGE UNTIL AFTER SHE LISTS.
Margaret felt physically cold.
Tiffany had not invented the wedding demands solely to force the sale.
The emails showed she genuinely wanted an extravagant wedding.
But once Charles saw Margaret’s financial pressure, father and daughter
knowingly allowed that pressure to continue while concealing his
interest in the land.
Tiffany had crossed a line.
She knew it.
“Why give me this?”
Tiffany’s eyes filled.
“Because my dad told me to delete them.”
Margaret looked at her.
“And?”
“I finally realized he was asking me to do the same thing I’d been doing
to Daniel.”
“What?”
“Choosing him because I was afraid of what happened if I didn’t.”
That did not make Tiffany innocent.
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It made her more understandable.
Those were different things.
