Chapter 26 - THE GUARDIAN WHO WANTED THE LEDGER.
Charles admitted he had agreed to become Leah’s guardian, claiming it was the only way to keep her out of the society’s adoption network.
Marcus called it a lie.
“You offered to raise my daughter if I surrendered the ledger.”
Charles insisted he planned to return Leah once the housing trust was safe.
Leah stepped between them.
“Both of you keep describing my childhood as a strategy.”
Denise revealed she fled Boston with Leah after Margaret warned her about the transfer. The apartment and unpaid work had been the price of staying hidden.
The council barred Charles from representing any beneficiary.
Ethan asked whether his father’s supposed death had also been part of the children’s scheme.
Mrs. Harrington answered yes.
Charles had faked his death after discovering the society was selling guardianship records to private inheritance firms.
He claimed he spent eight years gathering proof.
Then federal agents opened his island archive.
Several files had been altered recently.
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The changes removed Charles’s name from every transfer.
The digital authorization came from Ethan’s account—two days after Ethan surrendered access.
