Chapter 10 - The Grandfather’s Legacy
Inside the glass display case lay three leather-bound ledgers, a vintage brass compass, and a sealed thumb drive containing military encryption.
Beside the display case sat an official legal document carrying the gold seal of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Victoria stepped up to the table, her eyes scanning the first page of the legal document, which was titled THE VANCE TRUST CHARTER.
According to the charter, Victoria’s grandfather had anticipated the corporate corruption that would ruin his son and grandson.
He had structured the forty-billion-dollar energy empire so that its controlling voting stock could only be held by a blood heir who possessed the original gold brooches.
There were only two identical brooches ever forged in 1950—one given to Sophia, and one given to Victoria.
Without both brooches present alongside the blood heir, Carter Vance had zero legal authority to execute the impending forty-billion-dollar merger.
Carter’s entire corporate takeover was built on a legal fraud that Victoria and Leo now possessed the power to shatter in seconds.
Leo reached out, his small hand brushing against the vintage brass compass as he looked up at his aunt with his big hazel eyes.
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“Is this what my mom wanted us to find, Aunt Victoria?” Leo asked softly, his voice full of childlike wonder.
“Yes, sweetie,” Victoria whispered, tears of triumph filling her eyes as she hugged him tightly. “This is how we bring your mother home.”
