He instructed the accountant to prepare new corporate documents listing him as the sole owner.
He also requested that my role be described as informal assistance rather than employment or partnership.
The final paragraph made me feel physically sick.
Evelyn is still recovering and is anxious about losing the business. She will sign whatever is necessary if she believes it will protect our family. Keep the explanation simple.
I read that sentence three times.
He had not merely manipulated me in a moment of panic.
He had planned to use my fear before I had even left the hospital.
I had spent years believing I was weak because I had signed the documents.
Now I understood that he had deliberately chosen the moment when I was most vulnerable.
I put the pages down.
“Why?” I whispered.
Grace did not pretend to know the answer.
“People sometimes convince themselves that what benefits them must be necessary. But whatever Victor told himself, it doesn’t change what the evidence shows.”
