This letter concerns the Daniel Cole Descendant Protection Trust and your late father’s ownership interest in Northline Distribution Group. Due to repeated interference with previous correspondence, we are contacting you at your current residence.
I stopped breathing.
Northline Distribution Group.
The company that owned the warehouse where I had worked for nine years.
The company whose inventory I had spent twelve hours hauling that day.
I continued reading.
My father had not died penniless, as Teresa had always claimed.
He had been one of Northline’s original founders.
Before his death, he placed his remaining shares and financial assets into a protected trust.
The current estimated value was eleven point eight million dollars.
But the greatest shock waited on the final page.
The money was not intended for me alone.
The trust would become irrevocable upon the birth of my first child. Emily and I would serve as joint guardians of the assets, while the child became the principal beneficiary.
