After that, I put myself through school, aced every exam, graduated, and landed a position at a top-tier investment firm. I became the youngest team leader on the State Commerce Investment Review Board.
This time, I was here to investigate my adopted brother's company for tax evasion and fraud.
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The InterContinental Hotel, the finest in Riverside City.
The Fox family had booked the grand ballroom for their pre-IPO celebration gala. Every seat was filled with the city's elite.
I sat in an inconspicuous spot near the entrance, watching Barret Fox on the stage.
"...Everything I have today, I owe to my parents!"
His voice rang out, impassioned and grand.
"Ten years ago, my family had nothing. And my ungrateful sister stole every cent of our savings and ran off overseas to live it up, leaving us buried in debt."
"It was my parents who scraped together everything they had. They sold what little they owned, even took out loans from loan sharks, just to give me my first round of capital!"
His voice cracked with emotion on stage, and applause rippled through the audience.
My parents sat at the head table in expensive clothes, dabbing at the corners of their eyes.