All Chapters of My Husband's Adopted Sister Is Pregnant: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

The source of my mother's signature page was found.Years earlier, she had signed a project cooperation memo with Moretti. The signing photo captured exactly that day. The document had been executed in several copies, and Victor had been responsible for organizing and filing them.Later, when Moretti prepared the Bennett guarantee for its financing, someone pulled the page my mother had signed out of the memo archive, renumbered the pages, and bound it into the authorization materials.The paper, the ink impressions, and the binding marks all matched the old archive.Victor admitted he had handled the rebinding. He said the finance director had told him to process it, and he had assumed the two sides had already come to terms.That director was questioned as well. He admitted Lucia knew the financing required the Bennett guarantee and knew my mother later refused to acknowledge the authorization. On who first proposed moving the signature page, their accounts still didn't match.Lucia

After I announced my press conference, Adrian waited for me downstairs at the law office."Don't face the reporters alone tomorrow.""Maya and Daniel will both be there.""I can stand beside you on stage.""What would you say?""That I knew the plan had changed and didn't tell you in time. And on the foundation, I'll answer for what's mine to answer.""You can say all of that to the investigators. You can also say it at Moretti's press conference.""Evelyn, I want to help you."I looked at him."Hand over your complete communications with the doctor. Make clear what objections you heard when the project payments were approved. And on what you knew after my mother's accident, stop waiting for me to ask one question before you give one answer.""I will.""Then go do it."He looked down at my hand. The wedding ring had been off for some time, and the mark at the base of my finger was fading."You won't even let me stand beside you now.""Last spring, I wanted to see the doctor Maya recomm

Whether his driving constituted responsibility for the accident, and to what degree, still had to be determined through procedure and professional analysis.Her car losing control also involved the standing water, the slowing vehicle ahead, and the collision from the car behind. The footage did not prove that Lucia had ordered the crash, and it did not prove that anyone had tampered with the vehicle.I read the materials three times.They did not give me one single answer that could hold all the pain.But they set down several things that had been hidden. My mother denied the authorization, and Moretti still tried to keep her from verifying with the bank. Lucia sent Victor after her. In her car, she told Victor clearly not to follow, and he didn't stop. After the accident, her envelope was taken by Elena, handed to Lucia, and locked away for four years.I handed the materials to Daniel, and the accident liability and the document issues would proceed through the proper channels.Lucia

Shortly before Vanessa's due date, she went to see Lucia again.She wanted the Morettis to publicly acknowledge the child, and she wanted a house. Lucia had the lawyers on both sides start by discussing the child's care and the financial arrangements after the birth.The two of them ended up arguing in a hospital corridor, and someone filmed it.Vanessa shouted at someone off camera, "Your son made me wait! He said once Evelyn signed the foundation documents, he would talk to her about divorce!"By the time the video spread online, I was in a project meeting.Her words were close to what I had overheard on our third anniversary. But Vanessa was emotional in that moment, and the camera hadn't captured how the argument began. Daniel contacted the person who filmed it to preserve the full video, and asked Vanessa's lawyer whether she was willing to formally state what she had said.She refused.Soon after, she walked it back and claimed she had misremembered Adrian's exact words. Then she

My phone lit up.Adrian: Did you have the recheck? What did the doctor say?I read it and didn't reply.What the doctor said would stay with me first.The day certain Moretti businesses filed for Chapter 11 reorganization, I was in a job interview.The interviewer asked why, after years without full-time work, I wanted to come back now.I handed over the project materials I had worked on before my marriage, along with my recent records of assisting the financial review and rebuilding the rehabilitation center's budget."I stepped away for a while," I said. "Now I want to work on projects again, and I'm willing to start in a role I can carry."When the interview ended, Maya sent me the news.Moretti's earlier negotiations with creditors had failed to cover all the maturing debts. Asset sales had come in below plan, and some affiliated businesses faced clawback claims. The businesses still worth operating entered reorganization, while the other issues moved through their own processes.T