I Have Five Kick-Ass Brothers – Episode 28
Raina walked onto the stage before Weston could begin the vote. She pointed to the identification code beneath the hospital seal and explained that the same number appeared on the forged solvent receipt used against her. The company behind it had not legally existed for two years.
Weston called the similarity coincidence. Raina asked why a hospital would use a vendor code on a medical report at all. The room shifted as shareholders enlarged the document on their phones and recognized the inconsistency.
Theo’s physician stepped forward. He confirmed the report contained terminology no responsible specialist would use and that Theo had passed every neurological examination. Weston attempted to dismiss him as a paid employee of the Jones family.
Noah responded by producing an independent analysis from three hospitals. Each declared the report fraudulent. He had anticipated an attack but not its exact form, and Raina’s observation connected the final piece.
Luke took control of the presentation screens. Payment records linked Weston’s private foundation to the reputation firm that targeted Raina and funded Coco’s gossip campaign. A second transfer reached the employee who falsified Theo’s medical file.
Weston’s composure fractured. He accused Theo of manufacturing evidence to silence opposition. Mr. Jones asked whether he would submit his devices to an independent audit. Weston refused, revealing more through resistance than any denial.
The emergency vote changed direction. Shareholders withdrew support for removing Theo and instead suspended Weston from all authority pending investigation. Security approached as he backed toward the doors.
He turned his anger on Raina. “You ruin every family you enter,” he said. Theo started forward, but Raina stopped him. “No. I reveal what was already broken.”
The answer followed Weston from the hall as security escorted him away. Applause rose, first from the Lincoln brothers and then from investors who had doubted her minutes earlier. Raina did not enjoy their sudden approval; crowds could reverse themselves as quickly as families.
Theo thanked her privately near the terrace. She reminded him she had protected the truth, not his inheritance. “That is one of the reasons I love you,” he said before caution could restrain him.
The words settled between them, more vulnerable than any proposal. Theo did not ask for an answer. He had promised to let Raina choose the pace, and love did not cancel that promise.
Raina touched the star necklace. She cared for him more deeply than she had admitted, but the last weeks had turned every feeling into public property. “I need something that belongs only to us before I can say that back,” she told him.
Theo understood. He asked her to meet him at the rebuilt food stand the following morning, without cars, cameras, or family entourages. Raina agreed.
Inside, Mr. Jones announced a new partnership with Lincoln Group focused on small-business grants. He credited Raina’s food stand with inspiring the initiative, though she had never requested a foundation in her name.
She negotiated immediately: applicants would be selected transparently, and no program would use her story as advertising without consent. The old man laughed with approval and accepted every condition.
Coco watched the dinner coverage from custody. Seeing Raina defeat Weston without cruelty stirred a bitter emotion she could not name. Envy remained, but shame had begun competing with it.
Her attorney brought an offer from prosecutors. Full cooperation regarding Walter and the media scheme could reduce the charges related to evidence tampering, though the arson investigation would continue independently.
Coco asked whether helping would make Raina forgive her. The attorney answered honestly: cooperation was not a purchase. She would have to do the right thing without knowing what reward, if any, followed.
After hours of silence, Coco signed the agreement. She surrendered encrypted messages showing Weston had encouraged escalating attacks and had known Walter was alive long before the banquet.
One message contained an unexecuted instruction that chilled investigators: if Theo survived the factory, someone inside the Jones household was to finish the job. The sender remained unidentified—and that person still had access to Theo’s home.
