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chapter 46:The inheritance

Author: Noura writes
last update publish date: 2026-03-16 22:32:53

Frederick Morrison's office was in Midtown. Fifty-seventh floor. Glass walls. Manhattan spreading below like a map.

I sat across from him. Marcus beside me. Rachel on my other side.

Morrison was seventy. White hair. Expensive suit. The kind of lawyer wealthy families kept on retainer for generations.

"Ms. Ashford," he began.

"Winters. I go by Winters."

"Of course. Ms. Winters. Let me explain your inheritance."

He slid documents across his mahogany desk. Pages and pages of legal text.

"The Ashfo
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