Chapter 20 - The Boston Ledger
Two years after the syndicate was dismantled, a peaceful routine had returned to the Vance family's everyday life in Connecticut.
Lily was now eleven years old, excelling in her middle school academics and taking private horseback riding lessons.
However, during a routine property expansion project at Ethan's commercial real estate office in Boston, construction workers found a steel box.
The box was buried within the brickwork of an old 19th-century brownstone that Ethan had purchased three years prior.
Inside lay a collection of vintage photographs and hand-written letters belonging to Ethan's late father, Charles Vance.
One letter, dated 1994, detailed a secret partnership between Charles Vance and Marcus Kane's father in Texas.
"It seems our families were connected long before Veronica ever entered the picture, Marcus," Ethan noted while reading the paper.
The letter mentioned a massive oil land trust in West Texas worth hundreds of millions of dollars that had never been claimed.
Ethan decided to organize a trip to Dallas to investigate his late father's forgotten business legacy.
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Little did he know, a surviving branch of the old syndicate was already watching his every move from afar.
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