“Part 2: Grant interpreted my absence from the spotlight as dependence.
Vivian believed my late father had placed his business empire into Grant’s hands.
In reality, my father had placed it in mine.
My response began with a full forensic audit.
Within two weeks, the accounting team discovered that Grant had used a corporate development account to pay for Celeste’s clothing, luxury spa visits, private vacations, and wedding deposits. Weddings
Then they uncovered something far more serious.
Grant had forged my authorization on a large loan secured against one of the company’s most valuable medical patents.
Daniel placed the preliminary report on my desk.
“This is enough to remove him immediately,” he said.
“Not yet.”
Daniel studied me.
“What are you waiting for?”
“I want the board, the investors, and every employee he deceived to understand exactly who he is.”
While we quietly prepared the case, Grant became increasingly arrogant.
He sent me photographs of the nursery he had decorated in blue.
Vivian mailed Lily a silver bracelet engraved with the words:
SECOND PLACE
I did not respond.
I sealed the bracelet inside an evidence bag and gave it to Daniel.
Celeste soon appeared in a lifestyle magazine, describing herself as the woman who would “continue the Vale family legacy.”
Then a man named Marcus Reed contacted my office.
Marcus explained that he had been in a relationship with Celeste until three weeks before she publicly announced her pregnancy.
“She told me the baby was mine,” he said. “Then Grant offered her a penthouse, money, and a more impressive future.”
“Can you prove what she told you?”
A few minutes later, Marcus sent me a private prenatal paternity report.
Celeste had arranged the test shortly after Grant proposed.
The result showed a greater than 99.9 percent probability that Marcus was the child’s biological father.
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