Chapter 2 - THE EXTORTION
The morning after Daniel’s revelation, Linda’s attorney sent a formal notice contesting the trust. They claimed I had manipulated a vulnerable, medicated woman in her final days. Sitting in Daniel’s office, I stared at the fabricated timeline they had built, aggressively painting me as a predator who isolated Eleanor from her loving family. Daniel didn't flinch. He simply slid a small, silver flash drive across the mahogany desk. Eleanor hadn't just kept a ledger of Linda's endless financial demands. She had quietly installed a security camera in her own kitchen. The screen flickered to life, showing Linda screaming at Grandma about the $180,000, threatening to abandon her to a state-run nursing facility if she didn't write the check.
