The tension in the room grew thicker as the afternoon sun hit the high white walls.
Evelyn took another step closer to Sarah, her face twisted into a cold smile of satisfaction.
Evelyn: You were always the favorite child, but look at you now.
Sarah: I never asked for special treatment, I only asked for fairness.
Evelyn: Fairness is for people who can actually manage a multi-million dollar business.
Sarah held her ground firmly, refusing to step back from her aggressive older sister.
Sarah: Mark and I built the new department from the ground up while you were away.
Evelyn: With father's money! You used our family capital to build your little project.
Mark kept his head low, feeling the heavy gaze of every relative in the room.
Sarah: Are you really going to let her speak to me like this, Mark?
Mark: Just don't make this any worse, Sarah, please.
Sarah looked at her husband with deep sadness written all across her face.
Sarah: She is destroying our hard work and you are sitting there saying nothing.
Evelyn: Because he knows I am right, and he knows his place here.
Evelyn leaned down toward the table and picked up a thick stack of legal documents.
These were the original house papers that had been signed by their father three years ago.
Evelyn: These papers prove that I am the sole trustee of the estate now.
Sarah: Father never gave you sole control, those documents are modified!
Evelyn pointed a sharp red fingernail right into Sarah's face with cold anger.
Evelyn: Say that again and I will have security escort you off the property!
The relatives outside the glass partition began to move closer to see what was happening.
Whispers of shock spread quickly through the gathered crowd as the argument grew louder.
Sarah: You would call security on your own sister and her children?
Evelyn: I will do whatever it takes to protect my inheritance from outsiders.
Sarah: I am not an outsider, I am father's daughter just like you!
Evelyn: You stopped being family the day you questioned my authority.
Evelyn suddenly pointed toward the heavy front doors of the grand home.
Evelyn: Get out of my house before I make you regret ever coming back.
Sarah felt tears of anger building up behind her eyes, but she refused to cry.
Sarah: We are not going anywhere until Mark speaks the truth to everyone here.