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My Mom, the Real Bloodsucker Chapter 8
Dad's legal team took over with ruthless efficiency. The lawsuit, the trial, the sentencing—every stage moved faster than anyone expected.Mom and Uncle Keith were convicted of commercial fraud and embezzlement, and each was sentenced to 15 years in prison. All of their personal assets were seized to repay what they'd stolen.Every piece of the Sutherlands' fake prosperity, everything built on Dad's money, collapsed overnight. The houses, the cars, and the luxury goods were all tagged with court seals and put up for forced auction.Grandma showed up at my university and tried to force her way in, but campus security stopped her at the gate. She threw herself on the ground, screaming and cursing, drawing a crowd of onlookers."Sawyer Reeves! You deserve to be struck down where you stand, you ungrateful wretch!"You put your own mother and uncle behind bars! Can you even sleep at night?"I'm your grandmother! You let me in right now!"I watched her from a classroom window a hundre
My Mom, the Real Bloodsucker Chapter 7
It wasn't over.The screen began cycling through photos and screenshots of text conversations, showing Uncle Keith's new Porsche, his wife, Aunt Linda, loading up bags at a luxury boutique, and a message from Brandon in a group chat with his friends, bragging for all of them to see."My aunt is unreal. The money she scams out of that guy sure spends well!"The entire ballroom went dead silent. Every pair of eyes in the room turned on the Sutherlands like blades.Grandpa clutched his chest, gasping for air, and pointed a shaking finger at Mom. His lips trembled but nothing came out.Mom stared at the screen, frozen, then whipped her head around and locked eyes with me. Meanwhile, Dad stood on the stage, looking down at the whole family from above, and tapped the microphone lightly."I hope everyone's enjoying the gift. Now then, shall we talk about that additional investment?"Mom lunged at the screen like she'd lost her mind. "Turn it off! Turn it off!"She didn't even get clos
My Mom, the Real Bloodsucker Chapter 6
Shortly after, Dad set up a new investment company. The legal owner on paper was me. All of it happened behind the scenes.He signed a 2.5 million dollar investment contract with Uncle Keith under his own name. When news reached the Sutherland residence, the family threw an extravagant celebration dinner.My grandparents grabbed Mom's hands, practically shaking with excitement. "Diane, you're the pride of this family! We've finally made it!"Mom stood tall, beaming, going around the table clinking glasses with every relative in sight.The moment the money hit the account, Uncle Keith couldn't help himself. Within three days, he'd bought himself the latest Porsche and paid cash for a house in the suburbs for Brandon.His Instagram was a daily parade of excess, luxury dinners and designer shopping sprees, burning through cash as if it would never run out.Mom didn't say a single word against any of it. She even seemed proud, like they'd earned every cent.Using the new company as
My Mom, the Real Bloodsucker Chapter 5
I hired a private investigator to look into Uncle Keith's company. Three days later, an encrypted email landed in my inbox.I went through it page by page. The so-called company was nothing but a shell. Its only business was picking up outsourced projects from Dad's company, the kind of low-priority work nobody paid close attention to.Mom was the sole point of contact, and she'd been using her position to quietly inflate the billing on those projects by ten times their actual value, sometimes even more. The difference went straight into Uncle Keith's pocket.This wasn't skimming off a living allowance. This was corporate fraud. They'd been hollowing out Dad's business from the inside to fatten up their own family.I gathered the most outrageous inflated invoices and sent them from a newly created anonymous email to the CFO at Dad's company. The message was simple—a side-by-side comparison of the actual costs and the billed amounts, followed by a single line of advice."It may be
My Mom, the Real Bloodsucker Chapter 4
The next day, my phone chimed with a deposit notification for 75,000 dollars, every last cent accounted for. I knew every bit of it had been squeezed out of Dad's goodwill.I took the bank card and walked into the most expensive mall in the city center. I replaced every cheap, worn-out piece of clothing I owned, and with them, I replaced the version of myself that had survived on 200 dollars a month.Then I called Dad's assistant, Ken Bennett."Where are the title and purchase documents for the Porsche that was bought for my 18th birthday?"Ken's voice was crisp and professional. "Mr. Sawyer, everything's on file. I can have it delivered to you whenever you'd like."The next day, a sealed envelope arrived in my hands. I went straight back to my hometown without telling anyone.The bus dropped me off at the edge of town. Even from a distance, I could see the white Porsche parked out in the open like a trophy. Brandon was leaning against the driver's side door, running his mouth to
My Mom, the Real Bloodsucker Chapter 3
At 2:00 am, I opened the encrypted file.Every month on the 15th, a payment of 50,000 dollars came in like clockwork from Dad's company account. And every month on the 16th, a payment of 49,800 dollars went right back out, just as reliably, to a single account.The name on it was Keith Sutherland, the uncle Mom had always described as frail and bedridden, too sick to work.My monthly allowance of 200 dollars was nothing more than the loose change Mom and her brother could barely be bothered to peel off before pocketing the rest.It explained why my cousin, Brandon Sutherland, was already driving a sports car and dressed head to toe in designer brands despite being younger than me. It explained why every time I went back to visit my grandparents, they looked at me with something between pity and contempt.They must have thought I was worthless, some kid who only deserved 200 dollars a month.And my mother, Diane Sutherland, was their hero—the brave soldier who endured a supposedly
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