Chapter 13 - THE GRANDFATHER WARNINGDamian denied Grandfather “warned” him.

He said:
“They disagreed.”
Rebecca had notes.
Meeting in Grandfather’s study.
Thirty-one days before death.
Damian.
Grandfather.
Rebecca.
Arthur Bell.
Grandfather said:
“Mara’s stock is not yours to promise.”
Damian:
“We need family alignment.”
Grandfather:
“Then persuade her.”
“She’s irrational about leverage.”
“Then find leverage somewhere else.”
Damian laughed.
“Interesting choice of word.”
Grandfather leaned forward.
According to Rebecca’s contemporaneous notes:
E.M.: If any document leaves this office suggesting Mara has agreed when she has not, I will personally block the facility. Do not touch her shares.
There.
That was what I meant beside the coffin.
Not a prophecy.
A business warning.
Damian knew.
He argued later that no final document violated it.
Maybe technically.
But the financing process kept carrying my shares as expected collateral.
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And someone inserted my prior signature image into a draft.
Grandfather saw enough to create the duress protocol.
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