My millionaire parents abandoned me pregnant at 19 — 7 years later, they begged me for forgiveness.
Someone nearby said, “Both heirs?”
I answered, “Yes. Both.”
Mother looked at me like she wanted me erased on command.
Adrian opened the file and read the clause.
Instead she said, “This is private.”
I said, “It stopped being private when you built your reputation on pretending we didn’t exist.”
Father gave a short, ugly laugh. “You think you can barge in here and take what we built?”
Adrian opened the file and read the clause, the dates, the signatures, the verification. Then he started naming the pattern we had found.