Chapter 10 - Vanessa Turns on Her Father
Vanessa requested a meeting with Harold and her own attorney present.
She brought documents.
She was still arrogant.
Still defensive.
But frightened now.
“My father knew about the letter before I did.”
Harold asked how.
Vanessa showed an email from Richard.
Delete anything referencing Elena or her daughter before the property
files go to the buyer.
The email was dated three months earlier.
Vanessa had not deleted the files.
She kept them because she wanted leverage over Richard.
Harold stared at her.
“So you knew your father was hiding records.”
Vanessa shrugged.
“I knew he was hiding something.”
“And instead of giving the records to Sophia, you planted jewelry on
her.”
Vanessa’s expression hardened.
“I wasn’t going to lose everything because of someone I’d never met.”
Sophia answered quietly:
“You didn’t lose anything to me.”
Vanessa looked at her.
“You tried to destroy me before I even knew there was something to fight
May you like
over.”
For once, Vanessa had nothing to say.
