Chapter 23 - My family’s secrets become my problem

I could have celebrated.
Seraphina gone.
Anouk safe.
Documentary dead.
Except some copied records exposed genuine issues.
Old ones.
My father’s era.
My era too.
A payroll arrangement at one company needed tax correction.
A settlement confidentiality clause had been handled improperly.
One security contractor from years earlier had submitted false invoices.
My lawyers advised:
Correct.
Disclose where required.
Cooperate where necessary.
Painful.
Expensive.
Good.
Seraphina’s misconduct did not make every secret righteous.
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She had no right to exploit private material for leverage.
I also had no right to use her wrongdoing as an excuse to ignore what the documents revealed.