Chapter 5 - Victoria Knew About Thomas Mercer
Evelyn turned toward Victoria.
“You knew Thomas.”
Victoria stiffened.
“I knew of him.”
“No. You knew him.”
Claire looked at her mother-in-law.
Victoria wiped the last frosting from her face.
The humiliation no longer mattered.
Twenty-nine years earlier, Thomas Mercer designed the first Vale
Meridian commercial complex.
Edward Vale did not have enough cash to pay his full fee.
Thomas accepted a small equity interest.
Over the years, that interest became valuable.
Victoria had attended the original signing.
“You knew my father owned part of the company?”
Victoria answered carefully.
“I knew he had an interest in one project.”
Evelyn opened another document.
“Three projects.”
Victoria stared.
Edward had later consolidated assets.
Thomas’s percentage should have followed into the new structure.
The records were complicated.
Not a simple stolen inheritance.
But enough ambiguity existed that Edward Vale had wanted the Mercer
claim gone.
Claire suddenly understood why Evelyn had returned now.
May you like
Not for revenge at a party.
Because something had changed legally.
