The Billionaire’s Hidden Heir
Marcus is quiet again, and I can hear him moving, a door closing somewhere on his end, like he doesn’t want this conversation happening near anyone else in his house.
“Ezra, there’s something I should have told you eight months ago,” he says. “When your father died.”
My stomach drops before he even finishes the sentence.
“What.”
“Your father restructured his estate about three years before he passed. Most of it went where everyone expected — the company shares, the properties, all of it came to you. But there was a separate clause. A trust, technically, sitting outside the main estate, funded and dormant, with instructions that only activate under one specific condition.”