Gemotions

The weight of the legal documents pressed down on Marcus like a physical burden. His sister, Olivia, was left with the family's network of businesses, the vast empire that had been their father’s legacy. He received a set of his mother's old recipe books and the rights to her unpublished memoir. He dug his nails into his palms.

The silence that followed was broken only by the frantic pounding of his own heart. The reality of his inheritance, of being essentially excluded from the family's power and influence, sent a surge of hot anger through his veins.

His shoulders slumped, and he felt a wave of dizziness wash over him. He felt as if he were suffocating. The air was getting thin, and he needed out.