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Chapter 13 - HELENA’S CONTROL COLLAPSED THROUGH PAPERWORKHelena was removed from trust advisory roles pending investigation.
Not thrown into poverty.
Not expelled from the family forever by decree.
Her conflicted land transaction was frozen.
Independent valuation ordered.
Harcourt’s option was renegotiated or canceled under contractual review.
Other transactions were examined.
Some were clean.
Some were not.
That distinction mattered.
Helena had spent decades doing legitimate work.
Then gradually convinced herself long service entitled her to bypass safeguards.
That happens.
Power can become invisible to the person using it.
She told Gideon once:
“I held this family together.”
He answered:
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“Then you should have been willing to let someone check your work.”
She had no answer.
