"The problem is that Father has scheduled the wedding for February. After your graduation. After the trust clause activates or doesn't. If you claim the inheritance, I become less useful as a bargaining chip and the engagement becomes unnecessary. If you fail, Father consolidates control and the marriage locks in the Park partnership permanently."
February.
My graduation was in May.
The trust clause required Three-Star provisional certification by age twenty-five.
I was eighteen.
"How does that timeline work."
"It doesn't. Not for the certification. But the trust has a secondary provision. If an Angelo heir demonstrates sufficient public merit, defined as top-five graduating rank from an accredited Hero Academy, the board can vote to grant early access to the trust at their discretion."
"Discretion meaning."
