Chapter 2: The Inheritance Nobody Expected
Chapter 2: The Inheritance Nobody Expected
Three days later, I sat inside a law office overlooking Manhattan.
Still trying to understand what was happening.
David slid a thick folder across the table.
My hands shook.
"This doesn't make sense."
"It does."
"No."
I stared at the documents.
"My mother told me he abandoned us."
David nodded.
"That's what she believed."
The room went quiet.
Then David opened another file.
Photos.
Letters.
Bank records.
Decades of them.
My grandfather had spent years searching for my mother.
Searching for me.
Searching for family.
But someone intercepted the letters.
Someone hid the truth.
I felt sick.
"Who?"
David looked uncomfortable.
"Your stepfather."
My blood ran cold.
The same man who inherited everything when my mother died.
The same man who always hated me.
The same man who told me nobody wanted me.
David continued.
"Your grandfather died a very wealthy man."
I laughed bitterly.
"How wealthy?"
David pushed another document toward me.
I looked down.
Then looked again.
Then again.
Because the number didn't seem real.
"Two billion dollars?"
David nodded.
I couldn't breathe.
But he wasn't finished.
"There is one more thing."
I laughed nervously.
"More?"
He smiled slightly.
"Much more."
Then he handed me a property portfolio.
The first address made my heart stop.
I recognized it instantly.
Every employee in the city would.
The headquarters of Sullivan Tech.
My former workplace.
My former office.
My former humiliation.
I slowly looked up.
David nodded.
"Your grandfather owned the building."
My heart pounded.
"And now..."
May you like
He smiled.
"You do."
