Then a second audio file began — a recorded call between Brenda and Paige from two months earlier.

“Once Samantha signs over her mother’s house, Logan will clear your credit card debt,” Brenda’s voice carried through the room. “If she keeps resisting, you know which medical contacts to use to have her declared incompetent.”

The judge lowered the file and stared at the defense table. Logan’s smile vanished.

As two bailiffs stepped toward Paige, Samuel told the court that the most decisive evidence had not yet been played.

Chapter 8 — Forty-Seven Minutes

The recording held forty-seven minutes of it.

In one file, Logan acknowledged forging my signature with Paige’s help — she used her position in the risk department of a major bank to bypass fraud alerts and approve the loans.