Two million dollars. Alison couldn’t believe it. She never even called Granny anymore. This was absolutely stunning. Sure, Alison had always known there was some money in the family, but never really thought about inheritance or the death of loved ones. She certainly never guessed Granny was loaded like that! And Granny had done it right, too—handling her estate through a GRAT trust, leaving just over two million to Alison without any further tax burden. It was a cool two mil, tax-free. The money was already in her bank account as she sat on the plane ride home. Who would have thunk? The first thing Alison planned on doing was spreading it out between five or six different banks, the big ones like Chase and B of A.
Alison normally slept on planes, but not this flight. She couldn’t stop th
