The next morning brought a clear sky as Victoria walked into the downtown corporate building.
She wore a fresh dark charcoal suit and carried a crisp leather document folder.
Lawyer Marcus walked beside her with a calm and confident expression on his face.
They rode the high speed elevator straight up to the top floor boardroom suite.
Inside the spacious room sat Grandfather Arthur along with three senior corporate lawyers.
Eleanor sat at the head of the table holding a hot cup of expensive tea.
Eleanor: You have no business attending this board meeting, Victoria.
Victoria: I own fifty-one percent of this company as of nine this morning.
Arthur stood up slowly from his leather chair, leaning heavily upon his polished cane.
Grandfather Arthur: That is impossible under the terms of your father's will!
Lawyer Marcus: Here are the certified public records filed with the state court today.
Marcus placed the thick folder right in the center of the polished mahogany table.
The corporate lawyers leaned forward immediately to inspect the official court seals attached.
Eleanor's face lost all its normal color as she watched the lawyers read the pages.
Corporate Lawyer: These documents are completely valid and override the previous filings.
Grandfather Arthur: What nonsense is this, Eleanor assured me we owned the stock!
Victoria: Eleanor lied to you just like she lied to everyone else for years.
Victoria pulled out a second set of bank transfer records from her legal briefcase.
She slid the papers directly in front of Arthur's trembling hands on the table.
Victoria: She shifted two million dollars from your personal fund to offshore accounts.
Arthur looked at the numbers and then turned his head slowly toward Eleanor.
Grandfather Arthur: Is this true, Eleanor?
Eleanor: Arthur, she is using forged papers to divide our family apart!
Victoria: The fraud investigators are standing outside in the main hallway right now.
Eleanor gasped loudly and dropped her porcelain teacup onto the glass tabletop surface.
The tea spilled everywhere across her clean white suit jacket in a messy stain.
Victoria: You tried to take my child away using money you stole from us.
Eleanor: You cannot do this to me after everything I did for this family!
Victoria: You did nothing but betray every person who ever trusted your words.
Two uniformed police officers walked into the boardroom through the open double doors.
Marcus pointed directly toward Eleanor as she backed away toward the floor to ceiling window.
Lawyer Marcus: That is the person named in the embezzlement warrant, officers.