Chapter 11 — The Truth About Talia
Declan scrambled to his feet, his face red with something between panic and disbelief.
“This is a lie!
She told me she was an orphan — she said she never finished college, that she didn’t have a dime when I met her—”
Byron Cardenas, chief legal counsel to the Crawford family, stepped up onto the stage, and his voice filled the room without effort.
“Ms.
Talia Crawford is the sole heir to Crawford Global Financial Group and the founder of the North Horizon Private Equity Fund,” he said.
“Six years ago, she publicly renounced her inheritance to marry you.
Her father suspended her access to family accounts in protest — but she remained the sole owner of her own private assets.
Assets which, quietly and continuously, funded the growth of Kingsley Enterprises.”