Chapter 64

ADLEY

Gripping his hand off my thigh under the table, I gave him an I-wish-I-could-say-the-same-thing-look. “Morning.”

“Mr. Everette Kross and Mrs. Amelie Kross have two residences, a beach house, four personal vehicles, a yacht, thirty-seven million dollar cash in the joint bank account, and an eighteen percent combined share at the Kross Corp.” That made me the twenty-eight percent shareholder of the corporation.

“A trust fund that was already transferred to their beneficiary only daughter, Adley Kross, when she turned nineteen. The remaining assets mentioned and written on this writing will be transferred upon signing the document by the beneficiary.”

I listened to my parents’ lawyer as he continually explained other points in the document. So this was all the sacrifices all about?

“As witnessed by Mr. Mykel Creed, the spouse of the beneficiary. Any question?”

I remained tight-lipped.

So, this is it.

This was what we went to all t