Chapter 6 - The Two Plans
The more evidence investigators found, the less dramatic the conspiracy became in one way.
Nobody had poisoned me.
Nobody caused the hematoma.
Nobody sabotaged the surgery.
That was important.
My medical complication was exactly what doctors said.
Rare.
Unpredictable.
Julian did not create it.
He exploited it.
That distinction made me angrier in a different way.
Because he did not need to hurt my body himself.
He simply waited for life to do something terrible and arrived with paperwork.
The two plans were documented.
Plan A:
If Genevieve survives and has limited mobility or altered cognition.
Obtain medical power of attorney.
Financial POA.
Voting proxy.
Temporary child authorization.
Use “incapacity concerns” to persuade board and bank Julian needs interim control.
Transfer acquisition deposit to Mercer Capital as part of “strategic portfolio purchase.”
Then negotiate permanent equity.
Plan B:
If Genevieve dies.
Complete electronic death record.
Present false trust amendment.
Take successor trustee role.
Appoint self executive chairman.
Control Vance Development and key person insurance proceeds.
Transfer selected assets to Mercer Capital.
Both depended on speed.
Before Sarah.
Before Margaret Lin.
Before the trust protector.
Before the lender audit.
The emergency delivery gave them a window.
Then I survived.
Paralyzed.
Julian thought Plan A was still viable.
He brought papers.
Mistress.
Mother.
Why bring Victoria into my room nearly naked?
Because they had been at a hotel after leaving headquarters? Investigators reconstructed.
At 4:38, they left office.
Julian returned hospital.
Victoria went to nearby hotel where they had a room under Julian’s business travel account.
At 11:20, Julian left hospital, met Victoria.
At 12:05, both arrived hospital again.
Victoria wore his coat because her evening dress? Source says revealing black lingerie. We can say she had changed for hotel and threw coat over it.
The cruelty was gratuitous.
Not required by plan.
Maybe they thought sedated.
Then Eleanor.
She came with folder.
She had rehearsed.
Texts:
ELEANOR:
If she cries, don’t soften.
JULIAN:
She will sign.
ELEANOR:
What if nurse stays?
JULIAN:
Victoria will send them out.
Victoria had told nurse:
“Family needs privacy for estate planning.”
Nurse refused to leave entirely but stepped out to medication station, door partly open.
That nurse later testified she heard raised voices and returned when Sarah arrived.
Then Hazel.
Julian’s temporary guardianship document would not simply “give” him child because he was already father.
Why include?
Because it authorized Eleanor as temporary caregiver and allowed removal from hospital if Genevieve incapacitated.
He wanted Hazel out of my reach and physically at Eleanor’s house while he managed crisis.
That was chilling.
Then Sarah said:
“He was trying to build facts.”
“What?”
“If Hazel was already living with his mother, if he was acting CEO, if he had papers signed, he could argue continuity.”
“Even if papers coerced?”
“Litigation takes time. Temporary control can create leverage.”
Julian understood systems.
That was why he was dangerous.
Then the $9.8 million transfer.
Mercer Capital Holdings had been created four months earlier.
Funding:
$50,000 from Julian.
$25,000 Victoria.
No business.
No employees.
No office beyond virtual address.
Yet draft purchase agreement stated Mercer Capital would buy three Vance Development properties for $9.8 million.
Independent valuations:
About $17.4 million combined.
An insider sale at massive discount.
Who drafted?
Outside attorney Victor Lang? Use Daniel Pierce. A transactional lawyer hired by Julian personally who was told board had approved preliminary divestiture.
He had not seen actual board approval.
Not criminal necessarily.
He cooperated.
The draft required Genevieve signature or acting trustee authorization.
Plan A documents solved.
Plan B false trust solved.
Then lender audit Monday would reveal Vale Strategic and possibly Mercer Capital.
Julian needed transaction before.
Everything converged around my childbirth.
Then Sarah asked:
“Do you want to resign as CEO temporarily while you recover?”
I almost snapped.
“No.”
“Think.”
“I can work.”
“Not what I asked.”
I looked at Hazel.
Sleep.
Tiny mouth.
Then my legs.
Still nothing below knees. Some sensation returning thighs.
I hated.
“What do you recommend?”
“Temporary medical leave from day to day operations, with board appointed interim CEO who is not Julian.”
“Who?”
Nathan Brooks.
CFO.
Steady.
No ambition for permanent.
Board agreed.
I remained chair and voting trustee.
Nathan ran company.
That removed pressure from my body.
It also defeated Julian’s narrative that only he could keep Vance alive.
Within forty eight hours of his suspension, projects did not collapse.
People showed up.
Payroll ran.
May you like
Construction continued.
Turns out no man was indispensable.
