off when she was sick, of not having insurance, of a system that chewed up people like her and spit out their bones.
After that came foster care, group homes, years of surviving because no one was going to save him. He built Mercer Capital from nothing, made himself into someone the world couldn’t ignore, accumulated more money than any human could spend in a hundred lifetimes. But he’d never forgotten that apartment above the laundromat. never forgotten his mother, apologizing for things that weren’t her fault.
Ethan picked up
