Chapter 9 - The Account in Colin’s Name
A forensic document specialist recovered the impressions.
The missing page contained a trust account number.
It had been opened eighteen years earlier.
The account was registered under Colin’s Social Security number.
Colin went pale.
“I was seventeen.”
The attorney checked the transaction history.
Millions had moved through it.
Money stolen from Margaret’s estate had been hidden under Colin’s identity.
Tabitha had used her own son as a shield.
When the authorities discovered the account, Colin could be accused of participating in the fraud.
“She planned this,” he whispered.
Taylor looked at him.
“She planned for you to take the fall.”
Colin sat down hard.
For years, he had defended his mother.
He had accepted her cruelty as strength.
Now he understood that she had never protected him.
She had positioned him between herself and prison.
The attorney advised Colin to cooperate immediately.
He agreed.
But before the interview could be scheduled, Tabitha called a family meeting at the mansion.
She invited relatives, trustees, business partners, and the same guests who had attended the wedding.
Her message was simple:
Taylor Morgan has attempted to steal the family estate using forged documents and a mentally unstable woman pretending to be an heir.
Sarah read it twice.
“She’s doing to you what she did to me.”
Taylor closed the message.
“No.”
She looked at the black notebook on the table.
“This time, she’s doing it in front of cameras.”
The mansion had security coverage in every public room.
Tabitha believed those cameras belonged to her.
But the account controlling the system was registered to the trust.
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And Sarah was now a verified beneficiary.
👉 Tabitha was preparing another public humiliation—but Taylor planned to let her lie where every word could be preserved.
