Chapter 14 - What Vanessa KnewVanessa confessed that her father had used the Sterling family's old scandal as leverage in business negotiations.
She had known pieces of it.
But never the whole story.
"I thought it was just business," she whispered.
Julian's voice was cold.
"People always call it business when they don't want to call it cruelty."
Vanessa looked down.
"I was raised to believe power meant never apologizing."
Clara studied her.
"And now?"
Vanessa swallowed.
"Now I think I was wrong."
It wasn't forgiveness.
Not yet.
But it was the first honest sentence Vanessa had spoken.
She handed Julian the missing folder.
"My father gave this to me."
Julian opened it.
Inside was a final document.
A legal agreement proving that Clara's mother had never voluntarily abandoned the Sterling family.
She had been forced away.
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Clara's knees nearly gave out.
Twenty years of unanswered questions had suddenly found an answer.
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