Chapter 25 - NoraNora was born healthy.

I will not turn delivery into spectacle.
What mattered was sound.
Her cry.
Ethan laughing and crying at same time.
My hand touching tiny fingers.
Naomi did not appear with legal documents.
Thank God.
The trust trigger occurred automatically under Section 8.4 after proof of live birth was properly filed.
First Commonwealth became permanent independent trustee for Descendants Protection Trust.
Thirty-one percent voting units moved exactly as Grandma directed.
But in hospital room, none of that mattered.
I looked at Nora.
Months earlier I had lain on grass waiting for movement.
Now she moved constantly.
Angry little fists.
Strong lungs.
My daughter.
Not evidence.
May you like
Not trigger.
Not leverage.
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