Property documents.
Trust agreements.
Ownership transfers.
Lease protections.
Holding-company records.
When the updated county filing was completed, Evelyn sent her one sentence:
They cannot take what you no longer hold in your personal name.
Sophia read it several times.
Then she sat on the edge of her bed and cried.
It did not feel like weakness.
It felt like locking a door from the inside.
When her mother invited her to a “special family dinner,” Sophia knew exactly what the word special meant.
An ambush.
She wore a simple black dress.
