Chapter 1
My father was critically ill, and I urgently needed to access the family trust fund.
I hurriedly called my husband, the sole manager of the family fund.
“Vincent, the hospital is demanding payment. I need to withdraw fifty million from the trust.”
His voice was ice-cold.
“Can’t be done. According to the trust terms, your father’s life is not a priority expenditure item for the trust.
He hung up callously, leaving me in a cold sweat.
Ding-
An anonymous email arrived.
The attachment showed trust fund flow records: two million dollars annually paid to a woman named Luna
Hayes.
There was also a photo-a three-year-old boy with features identical to Vincent’s.
I understood instantly!
Vincent wasn’t unable to withdraw funds-he was using my father’s life-saving money to support his bastard
son.
The ICU alarm suddenly pierced my eardrums.
I watched helplessly as my father’s heart monitor flatlined…
Vincent, you used financial rules to kill my father.
I’ll use the same rules to bury you alive!
My father’s funeral was set for three days later.
The funeral home’s AC couldn’t freeze the age burning in my bones.
The funeral director handed me the bill.
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Ms. Whitman, that’ll be eighty-eight thousand total. Will you be…”
nodded, pulling out my phone to contact the trust bank.
he Whitman family’s billion-dollar assets were all locked in Vincent’s offshore trust.
he call connected, and the bank’s client manager sounded robotic.
Sorry, Ms. Whitman. Per the trust agreement, large withdrawals require personal authorization from dministrator Mr. Sterling.”
My father just died! This is for his funeral expenses!”
Ms. Whitman, we understand your situation, but Mr. Sterling specifically emphasized ‘irrational spending’
isk controls for you.”
isk controls?
ly father was dead, and he wanted to talk risk management?
hung up, my chest burning with a mouthful of blood stuck in my throat.
he day of the funeral.
stood in the center of the chapel, dressed in black.
1 my father’s memorial portrait, he still wore his gentle smile from before.
incent showed up lately.
nd he wasn’t alone.
lis arm was wrapped around Luna Hayes’ waist.
una wore a loose Chanel maternity dress, her belly prominently showing, holding the hand of that hree-year-old boy.
The child whose features were strikingly similar to Vincent’s.
The chapel fell into dead silence after witnessing this scene.
walked toward Vincent, my voice cutting like ice. “What did you bring them here for?”
He brushed off his sleeve with a contemptuous smile.
‘Jade, don’t make a scene. Luna and Kai are here to pay their respects to Uncle Marcus. He should be
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honored.”
“Vincent, you’re disgusting! You used my dad’s life-saving money to support your mistress and bastard child.
You-”
Luna immediately covered the little boy’s ears, shrinking into Vincent’s embrace with mock terror.
“Please don’t scare the kid…”
Vincent soothingly patted her back, then turned to me. “Jade Whitman, watch your tone. Don’t act like some
crazy woman.”
I forced down my rage, pointing at the funeral director.
“The funeral expenses need your authorization.”
Vincent sneered. “I’m declining.”
“What did you just say?!”
“The trust fund’s core purpose is asset appreciation. Dead people are depreciating assets-no matter how much you invest, the ROI is always zero.”
He lowered his head, tenderly caressing Luna’s pregnant belly.
“I need to be responsible for the next generation. That’s what quality assets look like.”
All my blood instantly rushed to my head.
“Vincent Sterling, you’re worse than an animal!”
I raised my hand to slap him, but he caught my wrist mid-air.
“Jade, you trying to get yourself committed?” Vincent roughly shoved me away.
Luna leaned against his shoulder at just the right moment. “Vincent, don’t say that. It’ll hurt her feelings. She just doesn’t understand finance.”
Vincent scoffed. “When you don’t understand, you pay the price.”
The funeral ended abruptly.
I held my father’s cold urn in my arms.
Vincent waited for me at the exit, holding out a document.
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VOLUNTARY WAIVER OF INHERITANCE RIGHTS
“Sign it.”
I stared at him in disbelief.
“Vincent, you really gonna be this ruthless?”
Luna suddenly raised her hand to shield her eyes, the massive pigeon blood red diamond ring on her finger
nearly blinding my eyes.
“Oh my, this light is so glaring…”
“By the way, Jade, Vincent bought this for me with the trust’s quarterly dividends.”
“Uncle Marcus’s passing really shook me up, so Vincent said he needed to compensate me for emotional
distress.”
WTF?!
My father’s death became her excuse for a new ring?!!
I couldn’t believe my ears!
Vincent slammed the document directly onto my father’s urn.
‘Jade, your emotional instability makes you unfit to manage assets.”
‘Sign it, or I’ll make sure your dad’s ashes end up on the streets with you.”
I clutched the urn, my nails digging into the wood.
He was using the most professional terminology to do the most disgusting, despicable things.
Laws and morals meant nothing to him.
To kill this wolf from the financial world, I’d have to use his own rules.
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