Chapter 13 - The Secret Of Hamburg
I dropped the journal onto the wooden floorboards, staring at Mark as he picked up the yellowed adoption document with shaking fingers.
“Mark…” I whispered, my voice trembling as I looked into his dark, shocked eyes. “Your entire identity… it was manufactured by your father.”
Mark stared at the official German seal stamped at the bottom of the document, reading the name of the Weber family empire in Hamburg.
The Weber family was one of the oldest, most powerful maritime dynasties in Western Europe, controlling over eighty commercial ports across the globe.
Lord Conrad Weber had passed away six months ago, leaving an undivided ninety-billion-dollar maritime estate that had thrown European markets into chaos.
His surviving relatives had been fighting a bitter, bloody war in the German courts over who would inherit controlling interest in Weber Global Logistics.
None of those European relatives knew that Conrad Weber had a surviving biological son living in the United States under the name Mark Sterling.
Arthur Sterling hadn't just hidden Mark’s true parentage to protect his own ego; he had used Mark as an insurance policy against the Weber family.
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If Arthur’s American business ever faced total collapse, he had planned to reveal Mark’s true identity to claim the Weber family trust in Germany.
Mark sat down on an old trunk, rubbing his forehead with both hands as the overwhelming magnitude of this new revelation crashed over him.
