Up on the exclusive Skyline Level the family sat nervously at a massive walnut table with Arthur Keating and his chief lawyer Miles Sutter. They had absolutely no idea that my security team had just caught Preston Weller breaking into my corporate archives room on a lower floor to steal physical registry seals. I entered the beautiful dining room and exposed their entire fraudulent scheme to Arthur presenting the forged corporate resolutions and fake indemnity deeds that Preston had tried to use to steal fifty million dollars. Arthur was completely horrified to realize they were attempting to defraud his investment fund using a forged identity right in the middle of a birthday dinner for their own patriarch. He expressed his absolute disgust at their behavior and ordered his legal team to freeze all of their business accounts and promised to pursue severe criminal indictments first thing in the morning. Arthur and his lawyer walked out of the room without looking back leaving Connor weeping into his hands and Harper collapsing onto the expensive carpet in total despair.
With my mother and sister utterly defeated my father Richard finally stood up and asked what was happening. I told him that Eleanor had intercepted all my letters for the past ten years making him believe I hated him. Because he was the only one who had ever taught me anything valuable by showing me how buildings were constructed when I was a child I handed him a clear title deed to a massive equestrian estate in Santa Barbara. I bought his freedom and told him he never had to see his toxic family again. Then I presented my father with a second document that drained the color from his face. I revealed that Eleanor had forged his signature to take out a twelve million dollar mortgage on their ancestral Oakridge estate to fund Harpers lavish business ventures. The bank was scheduled to foreclose on the property and throw them out onto the street.
