I had to stop.
Sophie squeezed my hand.
“Keep going.”
There is one final truth. The ledger recovered from my deposit box is incomplete. Look at page forty-seven.
Maya opened the evidence scan.
Page forty-seven.
Numbers.
Company names.
Dates.
Nothing obvious.
Alex leaned closer.
Then his expression changed.
“That account.”
“What?”
He pointed.
A corporation registered decades earlier.
BROOKS MERCER HOLDINGS.
My maiden name.
His surname.
I had never heard of it.
Maya entered it into her system.
A current registration appeared.
Active.
Assets valued at more than four hundred million dollars.
Sophie whispered, “What is that?”
Alex looked stunned.
“I don't know.”
The company owned dozens of properties, investment accounts, and logistics subsidiaries.
Its controlling beneficiary was hidden behind an old trust.
Maya accessed another record.
Then stopped breathing.
“Evelyn.”
“What?”
“You're the beneficiary.”
I laughed because the alternative was screaming.
“I don't have four hundred million dollars.”
“Apparently you do.”
