Ethan: Clara doesn't even have access to the corporate banking portal, Victoria. How could she possibly forge official international wire transfer receipts with your digital signature?
Victoria: She used a hacking software online! She is a fortune hunter who married you for your money!
Clara: My family has lived in this city for thirty years, Victoria. I never asked Ethan for a single dollar or a single piece of jewelry since the day we got married!
Ethan: That's true. Clara refused a wedding allowance and kept her job at the design firm until her third month of pregnancy.
Victoria: Because she was playing the long game! She knew if she got pregnant with the family heir, she would control the trust fund payout at twenty-five years old!
Clara: I found these receipts hidden inside your father's vanity safe downstairs, Ethan. She was planning to liquidate the entire investment portfolio next week!
Ethan: Is this why you wanted Clara to sign a new financial waiver last week, Victoria?
Victoria: I asked her to sign standard estate estate planning documents to protect our family from legal lawsuits!
Ethan: You tried to trick my pregnant wife into surrendering her parental inheritance rights while I was away on a business trip in Chicago!
Ethan took the silver flash drive from Clara's hand and walked over to the grand mahogany desk in the living room. He inserted the drive into his laptop, his eyes narrowing as hundreds of financial ledger sheets appeared across the screen.
Ethan: These transfers bear the official authorization code of the Vance Trust Board... authorized by user account Victoria_Vance_01.
Victoria: Someone must have stolen my password! Maria uses my desk computer every morning to check the house delivery receipts!
Maria: What?! No! Madam Victoria, please don't drag me into this! I never touched your financial computer!
Victoria: You quiet little traitor! I gave you a job and a place to live when nobody else would hire you!
Maria: You forced me to lie, Mr. Ethan! She told me she would fire me and kick my elderly mother out of the estate cottage if I didn't help her distract Mrs. Clara today!
Ethan: Speak up, Maria! Tell me every single detail right now and I will make sure you are protected from prosecution!
Maria: Madam Victoria saw Mrs. Clara coming out of the study with the silver flash drive twenty minutes ago! She panicked and told me to block the hallway stairwell so Mrs. Clara couldn't run downstairs!
Victoria: You lying worthless maid! I will destroy you for this!
Ethan: Touch her and you will face another charge of witness intimidation, Victoria!