Chapter 11 - THE HARRINGTON WHO BETRAYED HERAt nine the next morning, police officers, attorneys, and every Harrington board member gathered inside the library. Isabella was stopped at the doorway and ordered to wait with the staff.
Adrian turned around.
“She enters with me.”
Victoria laughed. “A maid has no place at a board hearing.”
Adrian placed Eleanor’s cane on the table. “She earned her place when everyone with a title chose silence.”
The family attorney opened Charles Harrington’s letter. It warned that Eleanor might be drugged, declared mentally unfit, and stripped of her voting shares after his death. Four directors named in the letter sat only feet away.
Then the attorney reached the final paragraph.
Charles wrote that Victoria could not have completed the scheme alone. Someone with access to the family trust had helped her—someone carrying the Harrington name.
The library doors opened.
Marcus Harrington, Adrian’s younger brother and Victoria’s husband, entered without removing his coat.
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He looked at Eleanor.
“Father was right about me.”
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