Alex's POV
I was sitting at the small wooden kitchen table with my laptop open and the only light in the room coming from the glowing screen, and I was scrolling through the encrypted files Marcus had managed to pull from my father’s private server before the connection went dark.
My eyes were burning from staring at the legal jargon for the last three hours, but as I clicked on a document titled "Valerius Trust Amendment," I felt a cold sweat break out across my neck because the numbers on the screen were telling a story that had nothing to do with family pride or fatherly love.
"Marcus, are you still there? I'm looking at the trust audit requirements and I need you to tell me if I'm reading this right," I whispered into the phone, keeping my voice low so I wouldn't wake Krystal an
