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My Sister-in-Law Was Signing Lies

My Sister-in-Law Was Signing Lies

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โดย:  Qlan701จบแล้ว
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Family Emotions

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My younger brother, Leroy Graham, ended up becoming deaf and mute following an accident that occurred after his university entrance exam. Since then, his fiancée, Emilia Barton, communicated with him exclusively through sign language. I handed him money and told him to get his driver's license, then assured him I would pay for his university tuition fee. Emilia translated it as, "Your sister is mocking your disability and says you can't even drive.” When he picked up a summer job at a construction site, I had Emilia ask him to quit the construction work and work as an intern at my company instead. Again, she had twisted my words, "Your sister says she would be embarrassed to have you work at her company and that you're only good for construction work." At one point, he got into an accident at the construction site, which ended up crippling his legs. I cried out through the ICU glass, "Leroy, the doctor says it’s still possible to recover from this. I’ll spend everything I have to pay for your surgery!" Emilia looked at my brother, frowned, and signed to him again. "Your sister says that even if they performed surgery on you, you’d still end up being a burden to her. She wants you to sign the consent form to get amputated to make her life easier." My brother glared at me, biting his lip so hard it bled.

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Chapter 1
I watched my brother, Leroy Graham, pick up a pen through the window of the mediation room.He was facing a lawsuit because he was accused of damaging factory equipment caused by an operational error.We were supposed to meet and discuss a strategy for compensation today, but Emilia Barton had locked me out.There she was, standing beside Leroy, wearing a tight frown while gesturing wildly in front of him.Leroy, who was frantically looking around for me, began to shrink as Emilia went on gesturing. Eventually, he lowered his head and gripped the pen tightly.With that, he signed the liability admission and the deed transferring the mortgage on the house. “Don’t sign it, Leroy! Stop!”I pounded wildly at the glass door until I finally managed to barge inside.I tried to seize the signed agreement so I could rip it apart, but Emilia was a step ahead of me. She grabbed it and clutched it against her body to protect it.Then, she turned to me, her bloodshot eyes fixed on mine, a
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Chapter 2
After staying up all night, I forced myself to take deep breaths to calm down.Since Leroy was deaf and mute, Emilia must have done something to manipulate him.If I could get around her and communicate directly in writing, I could clear up the misunderstanding.In the morning, I withdrew a hundred thousand dollars in cash from the bank and stuffed it inside my bag, which contained a letter I wrote last night.The letter contained details of what I intended to do with the money as well as my suspicions of Emilia lying to Leroy.Then, I took a taxi to Leroy's apartment, the same one I helped him cover half the down payment years ago.After ringing the doorbell for what felt like ages, the door finally opened just enough to reveal a tiny crack.The person at the door was Emilia’s mother. She was frowning and gripping the doorframe tightly.“What are you doing here? Leroy isn't planning to meet anyone today.”I dismissed her. “I need you to move out of the way. This is my brother
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Chapter 3
Now that I was locked outside, I took a deep breath and rubbed my eyes dry.It finally occurred to me that I could not possibly emerge victorious by confronting Emilia head-on.She was the only one who knew sign language. As long as that remained the case, I could never get a word in and would always be framed as the villain.Based on how frantically she tore up the letter and how persistent she was in stopping me from writing to Leroy, I could tell she must have been concocting lies to manipulate him. She was afraid of getting exposed.Instead of heading home, I took a taxi back to the mediation center.I was in such a rush yesterday that I ended up leaving my umbrella behind on a chair.The lobby was empty when I arrived. The elderly mediator from yesterday was nowhere to be seen. The only person I could find was a younger staff member who was organizing documents.When I went inside to collect the umbrella, she recognized me and shook her head disapprovingly. “It’s you! You w
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Chapter 4
“There are three hundred thousand in that card and another hundred-and-fifty-thousand in my savings account. That’s enough to cover the fine.”Then, I fixed an iron look at Emilia and said aloud, “We’re not selling the house, I’ll pay the fine! All Leroy needs to do is focus on his recovery. I won’t have him pay even a single cent!”Emilia turned deathly pale in an instant while her eyes widened in panic. She began to dart her eyes around the room frantically.If I paid off the fine, her meticulous plan to sell the house and take all the money for herself would fall apart.With that, she turned to Leroy and started to gesture exaggeratedly in sign language again. She was a masterful actor and even faked tears so she would come across as being the victim in this situation.At first, all Leroy did was stare at the items I set on the table with a flicker of doubt in his eyes. After several seconds of Emilia speaking to him using sign language, his body language changed, and he became
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Chapter 5
I gripped my phone so tightly that my knuckles turned white.The true translation of Emilia’s sign language cleared up all the illogical events of the past six months.“Go to hell…”I could feel my stomach churning with rage while I muttered to myself.Since the agent had stepped outside to send off another client, I took a deep breath to suppress my rage before collecting the fragments of the receipt.Though I could not piece it back together, the important information was salvaged.[Trustee/Mortgagee: Dana Barton][Estimated Valuation: $2,800,000][Full Sum of Loan Repayment: $300,000]I chuckled to myself. So much for the devoted fiancée selling everything she had to pay off her fiancé’s debts!This whole time, she planned to trick Leroy into signing a 2.8 million dollar agreement to sell the house. She had neatly disguised it with the intention of paying off his loan.Once everything was concluded, the house would be formally transferred to her mother. This was all part
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Chapter 6
On Saturday morning, I had just gotten in touch with Mr. Newman, a language interpreter from the State Commission for the Disabled, when the doorbell rang.“Leah! Come out right now!”It was my uncle shouting outside.When I looked through the peephole, I saw the hallway crowded with people.There was my uncle, my aunt, Emilia, and Dana. They were all in a hysterical fit.In the middle was Leroy, who was dragged along by them. His eyes were sunken, and he seemed like he was agitated to the point of breaking.I proceeded to open the door and confront them icily while leaning against the doorframe.“Leah! Have you no shame?” my uncle exclaimed while pointing an accusing finger at me, “You’re coming with me right now to lift the injunction! I’ll have you know that the factory manager brought a crew of people to Leroy’s house yesterday to demand payment! Are you going to just watch idly while they put your brother behind bars? You’re his sister, how could you be so heartless?”My a
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Chapter 7
By eight-fifty on Monday, the lobby was already packed to the brim with people.Emilia, Dana, and a pale, haggard Leroy were already waiting by the window.My uncle and aunt were present as witnesses as well. Emilia had already done the due diligence of speaking to the rest of her relatives beforehand to convince them that I had falsified the translation of her sign language to sow discord between her and Leroy.At nine o’clock, I pushed the glass door open and stepped inside.I was accompanied by two notary staff and Mr. Newman, the sign language interpreter.He wore a badge verifying his status as a court-certified expert in sign language translation. Additionally, he carried a briefcase containing his credentials from the State Commission for the Disabled, photocopies of court case files from the past years, and several videos of Emilia communicating in sign language I had carefully made copies of beforehand.Emilia turned deathly pale the moment she saw the badge Mr. Newman w
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Chapter 8
Leroy suddenly unleashed a terrible cry that echoed across the building. He was shaking violently.He no longer regarded Emilia with the same trust. When he began to speak to her using sign language, his gestures were performed with an overwhelming emotion that was evocative of his agitation.“All this time, you have been lying to me? I trusted you wholeheartedly, but all you wanted was to steal my house!”Emilia recoiled in hurt but continued to deny the allegations as she signed back at him. “It’s not… Leroy, please let me explain. It was your sister who forced me to do this…”I interrupted them sharply. “Of course you’d want to deceive Leroy. How else are you going to seize his property and make off with the money so you can pay off your lover's gambling debts?”With that, I unveiled my trump card. I produced a stack of bank statements, each stamped with the bank's official seal, from my bag and scattered them all over the floor.“Did you think the house was the only thing I h
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Chapter 9
It did not end well for Emilia and Dana.Since they were suspected of several charges of serious offenses, the police immediately had them placed in criminal detention.Mike, who had been hiding the entire time, was caught by the loan sharks as he tried to flee the city.They severed his tendons, and left him near a dumpster. By the time the police found him, he was already crippled.The three-hundred-thousand-dollar bridge loan Dana took out had wiped out her retirement savings.After everything that went down, the loan sharks pulled some strings and had her house seized by foreclosure.With that, she was left homeless and forced to scavenge for food in the garbage near the detention center.Her hair turned white nearly overnight. Despite seeking help everywhere she could think of, she was only met with scorn and ridicule.She got what she deserved.The supervisor involved in the scheme was dismissed and prosecuted as well. Meanwhile, the factory manager decided to waive Le
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