Bella closed her eyes for a moment in pain.
The lawyer's voice grew quieter.
"I have spent years watching all of you stand in the same rooms while behaving as though you belonged to different worlds. You competed with one another. You measured your worth by money. You compared your success. You fought over things that will one day belong to someone else anyway. Perhaps I am partly responsible. I gave you opportunities. I gave you wealth. I gave you education. I gave you everything I believed would make your lives easier but somewhere along the way, I failed to teach you the one thing that cannot be bought: how to value one another."
Bella wiped a tear from her cheek.
The lawyer continued.
"Therefore, I have decided to leave each of my grandsons what I know they value most."
Jacob looked down. Roman's jaw tightened. Ashton listened carefully.
