Todos los capítulos de The Inheritance Clause: Capítulo 181 - Capítulo 190

POV: Avalon PierceHe met Marcus Webb on a Wednesday at a coffee shop in Hayes Valley that Webb had suggested.Webb was fifty something with silver at his temples. The kind of man who had been in enough rooms to have stopped performing confidence and arrived at the actual thing.He stood when Avalon walked in and shook hands without the theatre that people used when they were trying to establish dominance.Avalon sat down.“You said you had something to tell me and that Daniel Reyes doesn’t know you’re telling me,” Avalon said. Webb looked at him for a moment.“You don’t do small talks,” Webb said.“I have a nine day old daughter at home,” Avalon said. “I don’t do small talk.”Webb smiled.“Daniel Reyes approached Vantara,” he said. “Not the other way around.”Avalon looked at him.“Six weeks ago,” Webb said. “Before your daughter was born. He contacted our CEO directly and suggested that Nexus might be acquirable if approached at the right moment. He said the right moment would be i

POV: Selene CastellanoShe wrote it at three in the morning while Elena slept.She wrote seven drafts.Deleted six and the seventh was four pages and said everything.Avalon found her at four, sitting at the kitchen counter with the pages in front of her and a cold coffee she’d forgotten to drink. He looked at her face and said nothing, just went to the machine and made her a fresh cup and set it beside her then read the pages over her shoulder.She waited as he read slowly.When he finished he stepped back and she turned to look at him.“Well,” she said.“Read it to me out loud,” he said. “It’s four in the morning.”“I know what time it is,” he said. “Read it.”She picked up the pages.Read it out loud in their kitchen at four in the morning while Elena slept and San Francisco did its near-silent thing outside and Avalon leaned against the counter with his arms crossed and listened.When she finished the kitchen was very quiet.“That’s it,” he said.“It’s too personal,” she said.“

POV: Avalon PierceThe woman in the photograph was standing outside the Herbst Theatre with a phone pressed to her ear and a folder under her arm, confident she hadn’t been seen.Avalon knew her, not very well.Her name was Sandra Cole.She’d worked at Pierce Holdings twelve years ago, she was a junior counsel in the legal department. Competent and quiet, she was the kind of person who absorbed information without appearing to and who left the company after eighteen months without explanation or reference request.He’d forgotten she existed until right now.“How does she connect to the blackmail,” he said.“Cross traced the anonymous contact back to her through the payment method,” Patricia said. “She used a cryptocurrency wallet she thought was untraceable. It wasn’t.” She paused. “Cross says she’s been building a file on the foundation for eight months. She also has connections to three of the original investors who are worried about civil liability.”“She’s working for them,” Avalo

POV: Selene CastellanoFive weeks after Elena came home, life became something Selene didn’t have a word for yet.Normal implied returning to something. This was new. A different texture entirely. Days that had the shape of two people learning a third person who had very clear opinions about everything and no capacity yet to express them in language, which meant every cry was a translation problem and every solved translation felt like winning something significant.She was standing at the kitchen window at 6 AM with Elena against her shoulder, the city just beginning outside, when Avalon appeared behind her and put his hands on her waist and his chin on her shoulder and they stood like that looking at the morning together.“She’s asleep,” Selene said quietly.“I know,” he said. “Don’t move.”“I wasn’t going to move,” she said.“Good,” he said.They stood very still.Elena breathed against Selene’s neck with the total commitment of someone who had exhausted herself communicating very

POV: Selene CastellanoDavid Kim had Daniel Reyes's photograph on his desk before they sat down. Which meant he’d already known.Which meant Philip Cross wasn’t the only one watching the theatre that night.“You already have him,” Avalon said. “We’ve had him under surveillance for three weeks,” Kim said. “Since the Vantara approach became public. The timing was too convenient. A board member initiating an acquisition conversation timed around a birth.” He looked between them. “We wanted to understand the full scope before we moved.”“What’s the full scope?” Selene asked.Kim opened the folder.“Daniel Reyes has been working with a group of the original Pierce Holdings investors for fourteen months,” he said. “People who believe the foundation’s displacement bond acknowledgement opens them to civil liability. They’ve been funding a coordinated effort to discredit the foundation before any lawsuits can be filed.”“Sandra Cole,” Selene said.“One piece,” Kim said. “The Vantara approach