Dad asked the first question.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat votes?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria stared at the carpet.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictoria.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never said we were taking Daniel\u2019s company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t my question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere weren\u2019t enough votes to control anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cEnough for what?\u201d<\/p>\n
She rubbed both hands together.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst my son.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst his refusal to listen.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost admired the clarity.<\/p>\n
Not because it was justified.<\/p>\n
Because the pretense was finally gone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you want me to listen to?\u201d<\/p>\n
She stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople besides yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout giving Adrian a contract?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis company was failing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt could recover.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith SkyPoint money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith a legitimate service agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWon through a process his investors believed was influenced by family access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestors say things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPhilip Warren answered them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was Philip.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were part of the conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked away.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cHow many times did you discuss trust voting rights with Adrian?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat many?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTurn every answer into a prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m asking basic questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou already decided what I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pointed toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou decided years ago that I was shallow because I liked nice things.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI decided you cared too much about appearances.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. People can like expensive things without treating people as cheap.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face reddened.<\/p>\n
Dad lowered his head.<\/p>\n
Victoria whispered, \u201cYou\u2019ve been saving that one all day?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounds rehearsed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not.\u201d<\/p>\n
She laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course. You\u2019re naturally noble.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stepped back.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t helping.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing I say will help.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFacts would.\u201d<\/p>\n
She grabbed her handbag.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n
A vehicle entered the drive outside.<\/p>\n
All three of us looked toward the window.<\/p>\n
Dad frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria froze.<\/p>\n
I already knew before I saw the black sedan.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdrian.\u201d<\/p>\n
She whispered, \u201cI didn\u2019t call him.\u201d<\/p>\n
My phone buzzed with a security notification confirming an unregistered visitor had stopped at the front gate.<\/p>\n
Then another message arrived.<\/p>\n
Visitor identifies as Adrian Sinclair. Ms. Sinclair authorized him earlier this month for unrestricted property entry.<\/p>\n
Dad looked at Victoria.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gave him gate authorization?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t own the gate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my home too.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost told security to refuse entry.<\/p>\n
Then I stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet him in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we\u2019re going to talk to him anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria said, \u201cYou don\u2019t have the right to interrogate my brother in this house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad answered before I could.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s my house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her mouth closed.<\/p>\n
Adrian entered the study seven minutes later without knocking.<\/p>\n
He was younger than Victoria by six years and dressed as if he expected photographs: navy suit, white shirt, polished shoes, silver watch.<\/p>\n
He looked at me first.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re freezing the contract.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He exhaled through his nose.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of some argument with Victoria on a plane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what she told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria snapped, \u201cI told you there was an issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said he humiliated you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad interrupted.<\/p>\n
\u201cSit down, Adrian.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something in Dad\u2019s voice worked.<\/p>\n
Adrian sat.<\/p>\n
I remained standing beside the desk.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you send Philip Warren an email stating Victoria expected to control the Bennett trust position?\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian glanced at his sister.<\/p>\n
That was enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria whispered, \u201cAdrian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat? We\u2019re beyond pretending.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you think she would control?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard, don\u2019t make this dramatic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnswer me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian leaned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cA minority family position.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my son\u2019s company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA company you helped save.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt Dad stiffen.<\/p>\n
Adrian noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t exactly a secret anymore, is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cHow long have you known about Horizon Meridian?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cA while.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYears.\u201d<\/p>\n
I turned toward Dad.<\/p>\n
He looked shocked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria said, \u201cI didn\u2019t tell him until recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mentioned it at Christmas three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria went pale.<\/p>\n
Dad looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told him three years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI may have said Richard had helped Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me there was a trust position,\u201d Adrian said.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You dragged me here by turning this into a family emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou came yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause my company is about to collapse.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room became silent.<\/p>\n
Adrian looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere. Is that what you wanted? Meridian Guest Services pulls out if the SkyPoint contract is suspended more than thirty days. Without their capital, Sinclair Hospitality misses debt covenants next quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen your business depends on a contract you had not won.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were the strongest bidder.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat review is incomplete.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you stopped it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause evidence suggests you had access other bidders may not have had.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s exactly the concern.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery business has relationships.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot every bidder tells a board member that a CEO will have to listen when a family trust activates voting rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
His jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy write it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPhilip was nervous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout supporting us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you reassured him by promising influence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said Victoria would have a seat at the table.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe doesn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe might have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly if my father signed the amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian looked at Dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were going to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked for revisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked my attorney to explain it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said you wanted Victoria secure.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad pointed at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy son learned the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian gave a humorless smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel\u2019s feelings become involved, and suddenly rational estate planning is betrayal.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
Adrian continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard saved SkyPoint. Daniel turned it around. Both things can be true. Why should Richard\u2019s interest automatically return to Daniel when Richard dies?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause that was Eleanor\u2019s written instruction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian stopped.<\/p>\n
He looked at Victoria.<\/p>\n
She had not told him about the letter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat instruction?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad handed him nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first wife specified that any business interest arising from her trust should eventually pass back to Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much of the original money was hers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThree million.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked toward me.<\/p>\n
Then at Victoria.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said it was Richard\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told investors the trust was fully his family asset.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is a family asset.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Dad said. \u201cNot in the way you represented it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is getting ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said, \u201cSit.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stared at me.<\/p>\n
I did not repeat it.<\/p>\n
After a moment, he sat.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you receive confidential bid data from Philip?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you receive competitor pricing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInternal scoring?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExpected contract ceiling?\u201d<\/p>\n
He hesitated.<\/p>\n
There.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you receive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing formal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you receive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe mentioned we were within range.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSpecific range?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAdrian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA number.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria covered her eyes.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cWhat number?\u201d<\/p>\n
He told me.<\/p>\n
I recognized it immediately.<\/p>\n
It was the confidential internal budget threshold.<\/p>\n
Not public.<\/p>\n
Not included in bidder guidance.<\/p>\n
My anger finally became clean.<\/p>\n
Not loud.<\/p>\n
Clean.<\/p>\n
\u201cPhilip gave you that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said it conversationally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you use it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian stared at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery bidder builds assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you adjust your proposal after he gave you the number?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
I already knew.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Adrian\u2019s jaw moved.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe refined pricing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter receiving confidential information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe lowered our price.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo sit just below the company\u2019s internal ceiling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat saved SkyPoint money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. It corrupted the process.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stood again.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t understand how real business works.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence was so familiar in shape that I almost smiled.<\/p>\n
First Victoria believed I did not understand airlines because I looked like a mechanic.<\/p>\n
Now Adrian believed I did not understand business because I would not ignore procurement rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, you understand governance textbooks and executive theater.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand that your bid is done.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe bid is terminated from consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can direct an integrity hold and disqualification review based on admitted receipt of confidential procurement information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said you were staying out of the process.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am staying out of final sanctions. But your admission just triggered mandatory escalation.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face flushed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re destroying my company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Your company was already dependent on something it did not legitimately possess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think eleven thousand employees make you untouchable?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think your mother\u2019s letter makes you morally superior?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen stop acting like a judge.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not judging your character.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re killing my business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m protecting mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian looked toward Victoria.<\/p>\n
\u201cSay something.\u201d<\/p>\n
She had become very still.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want me to say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTell him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face tightened.<\/p>\n
Dad asked, \u201cTell him what?\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictoria.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
I watched them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Neither answered.<\/p>\n
Adrian swore under his breath.<\/p>\n
Then he looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe invested more than two million.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria\u2019s face went white.<\/p>\n
Dad turned slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAdrian,\u201d she whispered.<\/p>\n
He ignored her.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe has three-point-four million in Sinclair Hospitality.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said two.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria said nothing.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cWhere did the rest come from?\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the problem, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stepped toward his wife.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria backed away.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard, I can explain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did one-point-four million come from?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her eyes filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI borrowed against the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stopped.<\/p>\n
My father looked around the study as if seeing the walls differently.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou mortgaged my house?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me those documents were refinancing paperwork for the renovation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWere they?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s voice broke.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria whispered, \u201cOne-point-two.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the other two hundred thousand?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked down.<\/p>\n
Adrian answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit line.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe family investment account.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad sat hard in the chair.<\/p>\n
I moved toward him.<\/p>\n
He raised one hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m fine.\u201d<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Not emotionally.<\/p>\n
But he remained alert.<\/p>\n
Victoria stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard, I was trying to fix it before you ever had to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked up at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what people say when they know they had no right to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have replaced every dollar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith SkyPoint\u2019s contract.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Adrian\u2019s profits.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCreated by SkyPoint\u2019s contract.\u201d<\/p>\n
She started crying then.<\/p>\n
Not theatrically.<\/p>\n
Quietly.<\/p>\n
Her shoulders shook once before she pressed her lips together.<\/p>\n
I had never seen Victoria cry.<\/p>\n
It did not change what she had done.<\/p>\n
But it changed the shape of the room.<\/p>\n
Adrian looked away.<\/p>\n
Dad stared at the floor.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell Dad when Adrian started failing?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria wiped her face.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Richard warned me not to invest in him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad laughed once.<\/p>\n
A wounded sound.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you hid it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I could help my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian muttered, \u201cYou did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d she snapped. \u201cI enabled you.\u201d<\/p>\n
That silenced him.<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want the truth? Fine. Adrian needed money. I believed in the company. Then costs rose, an investor withdrew, and we needed a major contract. Philip said SkyPoint was reviewing lounge services. I thought if Adrian could prove himself, everyone would recover.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you used the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the trust would give us credibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou tried to redesign it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted security.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted votes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted influence.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was again.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cInfluence over me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her answer came immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you never listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost responded.<\/p>\n
Then Dad did.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn\u2019t supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria stared at him.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s voice remained quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy trust was not created so you could make Daniel listen.\u201d<\/p>\n
She swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You knew it then. You simply believed you could justify it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victoria looked as if he had struck her.<\/p>\n
No one spoke.<\/p>\n
Then my phone rang.<\/p>\n
Miriam again.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe completed a preliminary metadata review of the vendor files.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe confidential budget document Philip accessed was forwarded externally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo Adrian?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
Miriam replied, \u201cTo Victoria.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone in the room heard her through the speaker.<\/p>\n
Victoria slowly sat down.<\/p>\n
Miriam continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd according to the timestamps, she forwarded it to Adrian eleven minutes later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad asked the first question. \u201cWhat votes?\u201d Victoria stared at the carpet. \u201cVictoria.\u201d She looked up. \u201cI never said we were taking Daniel\u2019s company.\u201d \u201cThat wasn\u2019t my question.\u201d \u201cThere weren\u2019t … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-drama-sory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastestdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}