Chapter 51

• David's mind was whirling as the implications of what his father had revealed about Valerie's potential inheritance sank in. Billions of dollars? An entire corporate empire based in the elite financial hub of Valenton City?
• It was almost too ludicrous to fathom. Valerie had grown up in the same sleepy little suburb of Westbrook as him. They had gone to the same schools, shopped at the same malls, dreamed the same modest dreams of settling down and raising families together.
• Yet if his father's information was accurate, Valerie stood to inherit a secret legacy of almost incomprehensible wealth and power that would make her one of the richest people in the entire country - perhaps even the world.