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“I don’t know,” I whispered, my mind racing through worst-case scenarios. Fraud. Mistake. Arrest.
Marcus swallowed hard, then turned the monitor toward me.
The number didn’t make sense.
Balance: $389,240,517.63
Below it, in stark text, flashed an alert I didn’t understand: PRIMARY BENEFICIARY VERIFIED — TRUST ACCESS INITIATED
“I think there’s been an error,” I said faintly. “My mother was a librarian.”
Marcus shook his head slowly. “Your mother was… a lot more than that,” he said. “This account is part of a private trust structure. The moment this card was used, it notified our executive board and legal division.”
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