Chapter 14 - The Estate Search
Police searched the mansion under warrant tied to financial evidence.
In Seraphine’s office they found:
Loan drafts.
Therapeutic-placement brochures.
A Palm Beach property listing.
A spreadsheet.
Columns:
Vale Estate estimated sale: $8.6M.
Adrian share after costs: ~$2.35M.
Serein debt payoff: $1.72M.
New home down payment: $1.1M.
Reserve: $300k.
At bottom:
NEW START
Nothing about Maisie.
Nothing about where she would live.
Another tab:
Placement costs — 12 months.
Residential school estimate:
$96,000.
Trust reimbursement?
Question mark.
The plan was clearer now.
Remove Maisie from the house.
Pressure trustee toward sale.
Use Adrian’s share to pay Seraphine’s debts and relocate.
The trust share would remain Maisie’s.
Seraphine was not trying to steal Maisie’s seventy percent directly.
She was trying to unlock Adrian’s thirty.
That precision mattered.
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It also made the scheme more believable.
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