The next morning brought a heavy gray fog over the Dallas skyline.
David sat in a sleek glass conference room in downtown Dallas.
His lawyer attorney Robert placed thick legal files onto the table.
Robert: Your mother signed unauthorized transfers from the family trust account.
David examined the banking receipts with a cold and focused expression.
Evelyn had moved over two million dollars into a private offshore fund.
She had also forged signatures on the property deeds six months ago.
David: Can we freeze all her accounts before she leaves town?
Robert: A judge will sign the court injunction within two hours.
David felt a strange mix of deep sadness and righteous anger inside.
He had spent his whole life trying to make his mother proud.
Yet she viewed his gentle wife and child as lower class obstacles.
She cared more about social status than her own flesh and blood.
The lawyer pressed a button on his intercom to call his secretary.
Robert: Send the legal notice directly to Mrs. Evelyn Vance immediately.
Meanwhile, Evelyn was sitting inside a high-end luxury spa across town.
She believed David would simply calm down and apologize by evening.
She expected him to call her and beg for her forgiveness soon.
Suddenly, two court couriers walked into the quiet waiting room lounge.
They handed her an official court summons wrapped in brown paper.
Courier: You have been served with an emergency asset freezing order.
Evelyn gasped loudly as the spa manager looked on in complete shock.
Her credit cards were declined when she tried to pay her bill.
Her phone rang seconds later with an incoming call from David.
Evelyn: How dare you freeze my bank accounts, David!
David: Meet me at the estate at three o'clock with your lawyer.
Evelyn: You are ruining your own mother's reputation in this city!
David: You ruined your own place in my family yesterday afternoon.
David hung up the phone before she could scream any further.