CHAPTER 3 — The Billionaire Watching From Above
CHAPTER 3 — The Billionaire Watching From Above
Seventy-two floors above Chicago…
Vincent Ashford watched Meredith through a security monitor.
He was not supposed to care.
People like Vincent didn’t care.
He was thirty-three.
A billionaire.
A man feared by powerful people.
A man connected to Chicago’s darkest world.
But he kept watching the same footage.
The pregnant cleaning woman.
The woman who defended an elderly worker.
The woman who had nothing…
yet still protected someone weaker.
It reminded Vincent of a memory he had buried for twenty-three years.
When he was ten years old, he watched his father throw his grandmother out of their home.
He remembered her suitcase.
Her tears.
Her waiting for him to speak.
But young Vincent stayed silent.
And she disappeared forever.
Now, decades later…
another woman was doing what he failed to do.
Standing up for someone abandoned.
“Find out who she is,” Vincent ordered.
His assistant Carter looked surprised.
“Everything?”
Vincent nodded.
“Everything.”
Three days later…
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he discovered Meredith wasn’t the only person with a hidden story.
Harold Whitmore was not just an old man.
