Alicia shrugged.
“Then the money will go to charity. You don’t get anything. Neither do I.”
I’d heard enough.
“Get out of my house.”
“This isn’t your decision,” Alicia shouted. “You’re adults. You sign, you acknowledge me, and you’ll have more money than you could ever spend.”
“Or you can stay with the old woman who raised you out of pity.”
Ethan stepped forward.
“Out of pity? She loved us when you abandoned us like we were trash.”
“I made a difficult decision,” Alicia replied.
That’s when I called my lawyer, Caroline, the same one who helped me adopt the twins.
Caroline arrived within an hour. She read the documents and looked directly at Alicia.
“This is intimidation,” she said firmly. “You’re trying to get them to give up their real mother for money.”
He turned to Ethan and Sophie.
“Your grandfather left the inheritance directly to you. No need to…”
