The list detailed all of their severe allergies and school schedules along with soccer practice times and specific daily medication instructions. They had planned this entire setup well in advance just to trap me into babysitting.
For fifteen long years I had played the exhausting role of the endlessly dependable daughter. I constantly picked up children from school and covered emergency medical bills while rescuing their failing businesses and quietly repairing every single disaster my siblings managed to create.
When Dad almost bankrupted his construction company three years earlier I arranged a massive rescue loan through a private investment firm. My parents never even bothered to ask who actually approved that financial lifeline.
They simply assumed I merely handled the administrative paperwork as an ordinary corporate employee. They had absolutely no idea that I actually owned the entire investment firm.
I had created Apex Ventures right after selling a revolutionary logistics software program that I personally designed back in college. I strictly kept my name away from any media publicity because I truly valued my privacy in life.
