I stood quietly in front of my father’s grave, the wind barely rustling the trees around me. There was no grand ceremony. Just the cold truth of loss and the heavy ache of unfinished conversations. My father — a man who had built a $500 million company with his own two hands — was gone. And with him went the answers to so many questions I’d carried for years.
My name is Frank. I’m 45 years old. And on the day of my father’s funeral, I was left with nothing but an old, rusted pickup truck. The company? The estate? The fortune? All of it went to Patrick — my brother-in-law.
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