Chapter 5 - WHO MAYA ELLSWORTH WASI was born Maya Ellsworth.
That fact was not secret in a witness-protection sense.
It was hidden by distance.
A changed surname.
No public social media.
No society pages for more than a decade.
The Ellsworth family owned Ellsworth Meridian Holdings.
Industrial logistics.
Specialty packaging.
Cold-chain warehouses.
Commercial real estate.
Unromantic businesses.
Very profitable ones.
My grandfather built the first warehouse company after Vietnam.
My father expanded internationally.
By the time I turned twenty-one, the family’s controlling interests were worth billions.
Paper value.
Not a checking account containing a billion dollars.
I personally held beneficial interests through family holding entities, plus direct shares inherited from my grandmother.
On paper, depending valuations, my net worth crossed the billion-dollar line.
I hated that sentence.
It made strangers imagine cash.
Power.
May you like
Protection.
I had learned none were automatic.
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