Chapter 4 - The Financial Trap
Over the next four months, while Claire was recovering in a private estate provided by Julian, Ethan assumed she was broken, broke, and desperate.
Arrogant as ever, Ethan sent his corporate lawyers to serve Claire with a ruthless divorce notice. His terms were tyrannical: Ethan demanded full control over Claire’s family inheritance, claiming she was "emotionally unfit" to manage money due to postpartum depression.
He gave her a forty-eight-hour ultimatum to surrender her rights and give up full custody of the triplets to an offshore boarding nursery so he wouldn't have to see them.
Ethan believed Claire had no legal backing and no financial leverage.
What Ethan didn't realize was that Julian had hired the top family law litigators in the state to build an airtight defense.
Instead of cowering, Claire used those forty-eight hours to compile every piece of evidence: text messages where Ethan called his daughters "worthless burden," hospital surveillance footage showing him abandoning them, and bank records proving he hadn't contributed a single dollar to their care.
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When the forty-eight-hour deadline expired at midnight before the gala, Julian signed an emergency parental assumption order as their primary legal guardian.
👉 Read PART 5 to see Ethan’s reaction when he realized his father cut off his trust!
