Victoria’s breathing became faster.
“If you had this money, why didn’t you just help us?”
The question hung in the air.
I thought about it for a moment, then answered honestly.
“Because you were willing to frame an innocent person for a crime.”
All three of them went silent again.
Jonathan quietly slid another folder onto the table.
Daniel frowned.
“What’s that?”
“Divorce paperwork.”
Victoria’s head snapped toward him.
“What?”
Jonathan opened the folder.
“These documents formally transfer $420,000 from Mr. Daniel Reed’s offshore account into a new account belonging to his wife.”
Daniel’s face twisted in anger.
“You’ve been digging through my accounts?”
“Yes.”
“And if you refuse to sign the documents,” Jonathan continued calmly, “the evidence of financial fraud and wire theft will be forwarded to federal investigators.”
The room felt like it had suddenly lost all oxygen.
Daniel stared at the paperwork, then at me.
“You wouldn’t.”
“Try me.”
For a long moment, he didn’t move. Then his shoulders slowly dropped, because he understood something very clearly now.
He had lost.
Daniel grabbed the pen from the table and signed the papers.
The scratching sound of ink on paper echoed loudly through the silent room.
Jonathan calmly collected the documents.
“That concludes the legal matters,” he said.
But I wasn’t finished yet.
I walked toward the door, then paused.
My mother looked up at me.
“Olivia.”
Her voice sounded small now.
“Where are we supposed to go?”
I met her eyes.
“The bank will give you 48 hours to leave the property.”
Her expression collapsed completely.
“You’re evicting us.”
“Yes.”
Victoria’s voice cracked.
“You can’t do this.”
I opened the door.
“I already did.”
Then I stepped into the hallway, because the final chapter of my old family had officially ended. And the life waiting on the other side of that door was finally mine.
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