I assumed it was routine.
It wasn’t.
“Victoria,” she said, “your great-grandmother established individual trust funds for each of her great-grandchildren before they were born. These funds were designed to mature when each child turned twenty-five.”
Then she handed me the documents.
My trust fund—managed for twenty-five years—was worth approximately $2.8 million.
I couldn’t process it.
All that time, I had struggled financially… while this money existed in my name.
When I asked why I had never been told, her answer changed everything.
My parents had known about it the entire time.
They had received annual reports. They had full awareness of its growth.
And they had chosen not to tell me.