Mr. Garrett opened the folder and revealed the truth. When my parents died, they left behind a six-hundred-thousand-dollar trust fund for my education and future. I nearly stopped breathing.
The money had been drained completely.
Eighty thousand dollars paid for Kyle’s university. Forty-five thousand bought Madison’s luxury car. The rest vanished into designer clothes, vacations, and expensive renovations while I worked night shifts and slept beside a leaking washing machine.
Diane exploded instantly. “We raised her! We deserved compensation!” she screamed. Grandma Eleanor pointed at her furiously. “You stole from an orphaned child while pretending to be her savior!” Then came the final blow: Eleanor officially disinherited Diane, Richard, and their children, leaving her entire million-dollar estate to me alone-
