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Loving Mom 383

Chapter 383

Richard had said, “My daughter is born into privilege, raised to enjoy life. There’s no need for her to suffer like that.”

Still, Richard wasn’t entirely authoritarian. He gave Victoria two choices.

First-enroll in an arts university, just as he wished, and he’d grant her fifteen percent of Kalen Group’s shares.

Second-pursue any university of her choosing, follow her own path, but she would receive nothing. No financial support. No shares. No safety net.

Fifteen percent of Kalen Group wasn’t just a fortune to ordinary people. Even in elite circles, it was a staggering figure, nearly unthinkable. Among her three brothers, only the eldest held fifteen percent. The second and third sons each had just ten.

The fact that Richard was willing to transfer that much to her said everything about how much he valued her.

In the end, Victoria chose the shares. She enrolled in an arts university.

But brilliance didn’t fade just because the stage changed. She’d grown up immersed in elite education. Mastery of piano, chess, calligraphy, and painting had been her daily routine since childhood. Picking up the violin wasn’t a challenge.

Like Sharon… her major

loved the sound of

Victoria learned something else. Their mother-the late Mrs. Kalen-had been

quietly, that Richard’s insistence on her choosing the violin had more to do with their mother than he would ever

didn’t matter to her. Whatever

Victoria had never once regarded her

born into the highest of circles, where every luxury and every resource was within arm’s

mother never let her worry about basic needs. Her life, by normal standards, was more than

compared to the Kalen family… it was a

the starting gun even

the legitimate wife, but without the power and privilege to back it, legitimacy became little more than a

door to the room swung open. Scott’s twin brother, Silas,

two talking

to Scott’s cold, detached demeanor, Silas was far

the table. Without waiting for an invitation, he grabbed a cup.