Marcus ushered Jessica and little Leo into his warm inner office.
The legal room smelled of old paper and fresh hot coffee.
Marcus handed Leo a small mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows.
Marcus: Take a seat, Jessica, we have serious news to discuss.
Jessica sat down on the comfortable leather couch with her son.
Jessica: What did the forensic team discover about my father's will?
Marcus opened a thick manila folder filled with red stamped documents.
Marcus: The signature on the revised will is definitely a fake.
Jessica let out a long shaky breath she had held in.
Jessica: I knew my father would never leave Leo with nothing!
Marcus: But that is not the only thing Victoria hid from you.
Marcus slid three financial tax balance statements across the oak desk.
Marcus: Victoria transferred two million dollars out of your father's trust fund.
Jessica: She stole from the family trust fund before he passed away?
Marcus: She moved the money into an offshore account in the Bahamas.
Jessica rubbed her tired eyes as anger boiled inside her chest.
Jessica: My father was sick during his last six months of life.
Marcus: She took advantage of his poor health to drain his accounts.
Leo looked up at his mother with his big innocent eyes.
Leo: Mommy, why is the lady so mean to us?
Jessica kissed the top of her little boy's soft forehead.
Jessica: Everything will be fixed very soon, my sweet boy.
Marcus pulled out a crisp white legal summons from his drawer.
Marcus: I am filing an emergency lawsuit in probate court tomorrow.
Jessica: Can we freeze the mansion and all bank accounts right now?
Marcus: The judge will sign an injunction order early tomorrow morning.
Jessica: Victoria thinks she can bully us away with her money.
Marcus: She does not know we have full access to bank records.
Jessica felt her heart beat faster with steady growing confidence today.
She knew her father loved her and Leo more than life itself.
Jessica: What about the house security cameras from this morning, Marcus?
Marcus: Did Victoria have cameras installed near the front entrance doors?
Jessica: My father put high definition security cameras everywhere on the porch.
Marcus: If those cameras recorded her actions, we have criminal evidence.
Jessica remembered her father's secret backup server in the garage office.
Jessica: The footage uploads automatically to my father's personal cloud server!
Marcus smiled brightly and clapped his hands together with enthusiasm.
Marcus: Log into that cloud account right now on my computer!