The following spring, Aster secured the long-term operating rights to an old theater in Steinwald.
The project was massive, and I spent more than half a year flying back and forth between Kingswell and Steinwald.
My parents had tried to use the media to claim that I had built my career on the Grant family's resources.
I didn't respond.
Three days later, the Grant Foundation released all records of its collaboration with Aster from the past two years.
The records showed that, aside from one standard public partnership, there had been no exchange of funds between us.
Alexander even had the corporate legal team issue a statement explicitly stating that my career was entirely independent of the Grant family.
The matter died down quickly.
I didn't call him to thank him.
Nor did he use
