Julian: Where... where did you get that ring?
Clara: I think you already know the answer to that, Julian.
Victoria: What are you talking about, Julian? She just grabbed my leg! Fire her right now! Call security and have her arrested for assault!
Julian: Victoria, shut your mouth for one second!
Victoria: What?! You're taking her side? She's a maid!
Clara: I am a maid in this house because I chose to be. But this ring belonged to General Thomas Vance.
A collective gasp rippled through the gathering of wealthy guests. General Thomas Vance was the late patriarch of the family, a military hero and billionaire industrialist who had passed away six months prior. His vast estate, trust fund, and corporate empire were currently in legal limbo, handled by top divorce lawyers and estate executors.
Julian: That's our grandfather's official seal. Only three were ever made. My father has one, I have one... and the third was lost twenty years ago.
Clara: It wasn't lost. It was given to my mother.
Victoria: She's lying! She's a thief! She must have stolen it from grandfather's private safe before he died!
Clara: Check the serial code engraved on the inner band, Julian. Go ahead. Take a close look.
Julian stepped closer, his hands shaking as he leaned in to inspect the gold band resting on Clara's finger. His face turned pale as the reality hit him.
Julian: The initials... T.V. to E.M. Evelyn Miller.
Clara: My mother. The woman your father paid off and ran out of town when she fell pregnant with General Vance's legal firstborn child.
Victoria: This is absurd! This girl is trying to pull an inheritance scam right in front of the senator! Security, get in here!
Clara: Go ahead, call them. Let's get the police involved right now. I'm sure the press would love to know why the Vance family hid the true primary heir to the estate for over two decades.
Julian: Clara... is it really you? The daughter Evelyn was carrying?
Clara: It is. And I didn't come here to clean your floors, Julian. I came to reclaim what your father stole from my family.
Victoria: You won't get a single penny! The entire trust fund belongs to us! We have the court order signed by the probate judge!
Clara: A court order built on a forged death certificate and a fraudulent affidavit. Do you really think I came into this house without evidence?
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