Chapter 6: Bloodlines and Secrets**
The rear window of the sedan rolled down, revealing Evelyn's stony profile. She gestured for Elena to get in. Elena stayed firmly locked inside her own vehicle, cracking her window just an inch.
"You don't understand the machinery you're meddling with, Elena," Evelyn said through the gap, her voice crisp and emotionless. "Mark did what he had to do to protect our family legacy. His father built this firm on alliances that cannot withstand a public trial."
"Your son tried to kill me, Evelyn," Elena said, shocked by the older woman's callousness. "He was poisoning the mother of your grandson."
"He was managing a liability," Evelyn corrected smoothly. "You were threatening to audit the firm's trusts last winter. Mark simply ensured you wouldn't follow through. Give me the parcel, Elena. We will set up a blind trust for Leo that will guarantee his future anywhere in the world."
Elena looked at the woman who had sat across from her at Thanksgiving dinners for a decade. "Leo doesn't need your blood money. He needs the truth."
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Elena shifted into reverse, clipped the bumper of the sedan, and accelerated out of the lot toward the precinct.
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