My Children’s Surprise Weekend at a Luxury Hotel Changed Everything for Me

Inside were neat rows of filing cabinets filled with documents bearing my father’s name alongside a company called Northbridge Investments—one of Spain’s largest firms. Among the papers was a legal agreement transferring my father’s entire share to me.

I, who scrubbed office floors before sunrise, had unknowingly inherited a corporate empire. But in a black folder, I found recent photographs of my daily life—my children, my ex-husband, strangers watching from a distance. Fear stirred in my stomach.

Someone had been tracking me. When I confronted Edward later, he revealed the truth: my father had investigated my ex-husband for using my identity in fraudulent loans, trying to protect me from financial ruin. He had tried to warn me for years.

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