I worried we wouldn’t be able to figure things out. I hadn’t seen or heard from her and things just felt off. There was a tipping point feeling in my bones that kept me on edge. My sleep became shit and throwing up became the norm. Not to mention, my skin crawled from having someone touch me that didn’t deserve to, and someone admitted to surveilling me without my knowledge for years.

Paranoia wasn’t exactly the word I’d use to describe how I felt.

“I need to be involved. You can’t kick me out now.”

His men looked to him for guidance—and opinions. This small blonde girl was telling them she was to be involved when they were going out to do what it was they do. The cleaning work.

Brent didn’t look like he wanted to agree with my being involved, but what other choice did he have?

They had an entire silent conversation amongst themselves while I waited for someone to respond. I couldn’t help but wish Kelly was with me.

Mr. Caldwell cleared his throat to interrupt. “Let’s go over a few key legal details before you all get trigger happy. For one, I know nothing about what you all are about to do. Two, Fallon has legal bindings over her head until she is twenty-one. This document here outlines your guardianship with your aunt.”

“Then, it’s true. She really is planning to steal everything. No work on her end, just greed. Just a jealous woman with a ploy to steal. Even if she gets everything she wanted, she wouldn’t know what to do with it anyway.”

A saddened nod. “She may bring the end of a lot of things if she were to succeed. Here. This is the guardianship outline. This was hard to dig up and no one would have even known about it since it’s a private legal matter. What else she did outside of this I can dig up, but it looks like she’s heading towards stealing ownership.”

“How could she steal ownership if it’s clearly outlined that I takeover at twenty-one?” My mother had a legal savant write her will. The thing appeared ironclad, but again, I knew nothing of our world and how dirty one could get in order to get a leg up on someone else.

“There are a few ways in which your allies at the company wouldn’t have known, and we need to prepare for any option.” Mr. Caldwell added.

Business in the way my aunt was using it was not in my training materials. I barely understood the basics of the company and legal documents. How was I to understand the loopholes that she could have used?