If she fights, we put her in a high-end facility and take over the estate.'”
Emerson pressed a hand to his chest and swayed.
Those words didn’t only condemn Portia.
They showed him how his own love, his fear of being alone after his father’s death, had been turned into a weapon against the woman who raised him.
Chapter 13 — She Already Had Her Turn
Portia lost the last of her control.
“Yes!
I wanted the money!” she screamed, her voice ringing off the high ceiling.
“So what?
What does a lonely, pathetic old woman need with a hundred and twenty million dollars?