Julian: Guards! Lock the main gates of the estate immediately!
Guard: Yes, Mr. Vance! Right away, sir!
Clara: Julian, please be careful. Your mother is arriving here in thirty minutes for the family foundation board meeting!
Julian: Good. Let her come. She is going to walk straight into her worst nightmare.
Mia: Can I have some strawberry jam for my bread, Daddy?
Julian let out a watery laugh, a genuine smile breaking across his face for the first time in five long years.
Julian: You can have all the strawberry jam in this house, Mia. Anything you want, it's yours.
Clara: You shouldn't spoil her so quickly, Julian. She isn't used to all this luxury.
Julian: She shouldn't have had to get used to living in poverty while my family sat on a hundred-million-dollar inheritance!
Clara: I worked two jobs to support her. I worked at a bakery in the mornings and cleaned houses at night.
Julian: While my mother spent fifty thousand dollars a month on clothes and private jet trips using my late father's estate funds!
Clara: I didn't care about the money, Julian. I just wanted my daughter to be safe.
Julian: Where are the legal papers your mother forced you to sign five years ago, Clara?
Clara: I kept every single document in a folder inside my car parked down the street.
Julian: Walk out there right now with one of my bodyguards and bring that folder straight to my study.
Clara: Are you going to call your family lawyer?
Julian: I am going to call my head criminal defense attorney and the chief of police. Forging hospital birth records and falsifying death certificates is a severe federal offense.
Mia: Is the mean lady with the big hat coming here?
Julian looked down at his daughter, noticing the sudden fear in her voice when she mentioned his mother.
Julian: Have you seen my mother before, Mia?
Mia: She came to our small apartment last year. She yelled at Mommy and pushed her against the door.
Julian: What? She came to your house personaly?
Clara: She found out where we were living after I filed for Mia's official birth certificate update. She paid off the clerk to delay the paperwork and came to my door to threaten me again.
Julian: She physically put her hands on you in front of my daughter?
Clara: She told me if I ever tried to contact you or bring Mia near the company headquarters, she would make sure I spent ten years in prison for extortion!
Julian: Extortion? You didn't ask her for a single penny!
Clara: She claimed that if a poor girl like me showed up with a child claiming to be a Vance heir, the press would call it a scam to steal the family fortune.
Julian: My mother is a evil, manipulative sociopath who ruined five years of my life for corporate control!
Mia: Don't be mad, Daddy. Look, I saved half my roll for you!
Julian felt his heart melt as the tiny girl held out a piece of warm bread toward his face with a hopeful smile.
Julian: Thank you, sweetie. You are the sweetest girl in the whole world.
Clara: I'll go get the folder from the car now, Julian.
Julian: Take Guard Thomas with you. Nobody touches you or Mia ever again on this property.