THEY THOUGHT A 38-WEEK-PREGNANT WOMAN WOULD SIGN AFTER ONE MORE PUSH—UNTIL SHE STOPPED FEELING THE BABY MOVE
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Chapter 6 - MARGARET’S REAL MOTIVEMoney mattered.
But not the way Claire assumed.
Margaret was not poor.
She was terrified of becoming irrelevant.
Her first husband had built a family business, then died leaving most voting power to Evan.
Evan mismanaged it.
Quietly.
Losses grew.
Margaret had been covering them.
Then she discovered the Hawthorne trust.
Forty-eight million dollars in assets.
Not liquid cash.
But enough borrowing capacity to rescue Whitmore Holdings.
If Evan became manager, he could potentially recommend intercompany transactions subject to approval.
Margaret convinced herself the trust was salvation.
Her unborn granddaughter became a balance sheet.
Claire became an obstacle.
That was the moral collapse.
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Not wanting money.
Looking at a baby and seeing liquidity.
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Chapter 7 - THE BIRTHClaire went into labor eight days later.
Chapter 8 - THE FORGED PAGEThe modified trust document came from attorney Martin Shaw.
Chapter 9 - THE HOUSEEveryone expected Claire to sell the house.
Chapter 10 - “DON’T MAKE THINGS MORE COMPLICATED”Eighteen years later, Rose found the blue folder.
