Chapter 5 - THE SALEThe answer was hidden in ordinary paperwork.
Three months earlier, Daniel had quietly begun considering selling the mansion.
The house was beautiful.
It was also expensive, impractical, and emotionally exhausting.
Daniel wanted somewhere smaller near Lily’s school.
He had not told Eleanor because he knew she would fight him.
But she found out anyway.
A realtor had requested financial information through the trust office.
Eleanor saw it.
Two days later, she began asking attorneys how Daniel could be removed from management.
The timing was impossible to ignore.
Daniel confronted her with Rebecca present.
“Did you make this document?”
Eleanor looked at the page.
“No.”
“Did you know it existed?”
Silence.
“Mom.”
Finally:
“I asked someone to prepare options.”
Daniel’s expression hardened.
“Who?”
“My financial adviser.”
“What options?”
“If you insisted on selling, I needed to know how to stop you.”
Daniel stared at her.
“This isn’t your house.”
Eleanor’s face tightened.
“It was your father’s.”
“And now?”
She looked toward the staircase.
Her voice changed.
“It’s all I have left of him.”
For the first time, Daniel saw something underneath her cruelty.
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Fear.
But fear did not explain the signature.
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