22 August 2026

My dad told me to leave on my eighteenth birthday and the stranger in a suit who found me behind a restaurant one week later

“I’m sorry,” I said, my voice cracking from disuse. “I think you have the wrong person.”

“Are you Nathan James Brooks, born March fifteenth, son of David Brooks and the late Michelle Brooks?”

“Yes, but—”

“Then I have the right person.”

He smiled, but it was a professional smile, the kind that didn’t reach his eyes.

“My name is Richard Hartwell. I represent the estate of your grandfather, James Brooks. He passed away three weeks ago and named you as his sole heir.”

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