Chapter 3 - The Secret LegacyThe pieces began to click together with terrifying clarity. Elena Carter hadn't died in an accident. She had been exiled.
According to private investigator logs from decades past that Ethan managed to decrypt using his executive override codes, Elena had fallen in love with a man Margaret deemed "unworthy" of the Carter dynasty. When Elena became pregnant, Margaret had orchestrated a vicious corporate and social excommunication, forcing her daughter onto the streets with nothing.
The twins—Sophie and Lily—weren't random orphans. They were Elena’s granddaughters. They carried the true, legitimate bloodline of the Carter empire’s founding generation, making Margaret’s corporate control entirely illegitimate under the original 1940 charter.
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Margaret hadn't threatened to disown Ethan because she hated the girls.
She had threatened them because she was terrified they would reclaim everything she had stolen.
