“And the timber leases?” I asked.

“The accelerated vendor debt triggers the Savannah warehouse defaults automatically,” she said.

“His supply chain collapses completely by Friday.”

I set the contract down on the desk.

“Samantha staged that humiliation to break Evelyn,” I said.

“She wanted to establish complete dominance over our family before the ink dried on the final venue checks.”

“She assumed you were powerless to stop it,” Brenda said.

“Because Brandon told her we were ordinary people with modest savings,” I said.