“Your grandfather left you his entire estate. Four point seven million dollars in assets, including a house, investment accounts, and a small business. But there is one condition.”
I stared at the man in the expensive suit, certain I was hallucinating.
I hadn’t eaten in two days. I’d been sleeping in my car for nine nights. I had just spent the last hour digging through a dumpster behind a strip‑mall restaurant somewhere in the United States, looking for anything edible that hadn’t completely spoiled.
And now this lawyer, this pristine man with his leather briefcase and his silk tie, was telling me I had inherited millions from a grandfather I never knew existed.
