Inside were documents I had never seen before.
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The certified original incorporation papers for Brooks Medical Supply.
The pawn receipt for the necklace she’d sold twelve years earlier.
Bank statements showing every dollar she had invested when we were struggling.
And one more document.
A shareholder agreement.
I read it twice.
Then a third time.
Emma owned forty percent of Brooks Medical Supply.
She had been a legal co-founder since the very first day.
Not because I gave it to her.
Because she had earned it.
Tucked beneath the paperwork were several flash drives.
Each one contained audio recordings.
Dozens of them.
Threats.
Insults.
Confessions.
Months of conversations in which my mother and Ryan openly discussed forcing Emma out of the company—and out of our lives.
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Before I could even begin listening to them, my phone rang.
It was Olivia Grant, our longtime corporate attorney.
