Victoria: Shut up, you lowly server! You wash dishes for a living! How dare you speak in a private family matter!
Julian: Don't yell at her, Victoria! She protected my nephew when none of these wealthy cowards in this room stood up to help[cite: 1].
Victoria: She's a nobody! A hired hand from a temp agency!
Julian: She has more honor in her little finger than you have in your entire body[cite: 1].
Julian stood up slowly, stepping between Clara, Leo, and the angry woman on the floor[cite: 1]. He pulled a thick white envelope out of his suit jacket inner pocket and threw it onto the marble floor right in front of Victoria[cite: 1].
Julian: Read it, Victoria[cite: 1]. Read it out loud for every guest in this room to hear[cite: 1].
Victoria: What... what is this?
Julian: That is the certified court order signed by the state judge two hours ago. My brother's original will has been fully validated.
Victoria's hands shook as she picked up the paper from the floor. Her red eyes scanned the official court seal at the top of the document, her face draining of all color until she looked ghostly pale[cite: 1].
Victoria: No... this is impossible... the original document was destroyed in the office fire last year!
Julian: You thought it was destroyed because you paid the estate caretaker to set the fire! But my brother kept a digital backup in a secure vault in Chicago.
Victoria: Julian... please... we are family! Your father would never want us to air our dirty laundry in public!
Julian: You stopped being my family the moment you tried to steal a orphan child's inheritance and lock him in a closet[cite: 1].
Clara: She didn't just lock him up, Mr. Vance[cite: 1]. When I was serving drinks near the library earlier, I heard her talking on the phone to an estate lawyer about transferring the trust fund money into an offshore account in the Bahamas.
Victoria: You little snitch! I will make sure you are fired and blacklisted from every agency in this city!
Julian: You won't be firing anyone, Victoria[cite: 1]. Because starting tonight, you don't own a single share in this company, nor do you have permission to set foot on this property ever again.