Then came the final, devastating blow: the contents of the bank box, the secret deeds, and the proof of the long-running financial fraud.

The real fortune wasn’t the house they’d stolen and sold; it was the assets Geneva had kept safely out of their greedy reach.

Dakota lost her composure and screamed, “That old woman always preferred her useless granddaughter over us, and we put up with her for years!”

The judge looked at her with cold professional disdain.

“She just referred to the person she claims to love as ‘that old woman,’ in a court of law.”

There was no way to save them now.

The evidence was too overwhelming, and their own behavior had sealed their miserable fate.