“Darling listen…” she moved to get up but he waved her off.
“What are these?” Edward removed some sheets of paper from his pocket and unfolded them. He came up to her, thrust them into her hands and turned his back. Let her try to explain her way out.
Gladys looked carefully at the papers in her hands and the words died in her mouth. There was a photocopy of a mandate card with instructions to sell Bestman Group shares. It was signed with her name and a date for a week before they left the country. There was a bank statement showing the week‘s activities on her account and also the printout of emails with her account officer.
She stood up resolutely and went to stand behind him with the mandate card extended, “This is a forgery, Edward. I have nothing to do with this. There‘s also no need to turn your back on me!”
Her thoughts were all over the place. How could this have happened? Someone must be trying to frame her and break up her marriage. But why would they also want to takeover Edward‘s company? She did not see the connection.
Edward snapped back. “So you deny that you signed that mandate and consented to them selling the shares last week?”
“Of course I didn‘t sign that mandate to sell the Bestman shares. She knew how much it meant to him, it meant even that much more to her that he‘d gifted it. “Somebody somewhere must be lying but it is not me...”
“What about the email? Explain that to me.”
“I hardly even looked at that first email; my account officer sends such updates regularly. When he asked about the trip, I simply replied. You can see I didn‘t once mention the shares.”
“You didn‘t have to. They already had your mandate; just a yes was enough to go ahead with the transaction.”
“A yes to sell some of the other shares I had with them, but definitely not your shares!” Gladys could feel her temper rising. Edward wasn‘t being fair to her at all. Did he even hear her at all?
“I find it difficult to believe that some people forged your signature and put your bank account number on the form?”
“But that‘s exactly what they did! They forged everything in a way to make it seem that I did so.”