Chapter 9 - THE PEOPLE OUTSIDE

Dozens of Monroe Energy employees gathered outside after Harrison notified the board.
Thomas’s final trust gave employees forty-nine percent ownership if financial abuse was proven. The remaining shares entered a child-protection trust that no parent could control.
Grant lost the company the moment he struck me and activated the domestic clause.
Claire turned over recordings of Grant and Judith planning layoffs to inflate sale value.
Workers had lost jobs because Claire signed closure orders under my name. Her coercion mattered. So did their harm.
Then the house system displayed a new warning:
ORIGINAL RACHEL STATUS — UNCONFIRMED.
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My own identity had become part of the dispute.
Read Chapter 10 to discover which Rachel grew up in the Ashford family.