You look up sharply.
Valeria’s chin jerks toward you so quickly it looks painful.
Salgado continues as though he has not just detonated the room. A stipend is assigned to each trustee for service. Compensation and voting terms are defined. Safeguards are included to prevent hostile restructuring, liquidation, or misuse of the foundation as a private holding shell.
Valeria interrupts first.
“I’m sorry,” she says with a smile too polished to be real. “There must be some mistake. Alejandro intended the foundation as a future project, not the primary beneficiary.”
“There is no mistake,” Salgado says. “The foundation was already funded.”
Her smile does not vanish yet. It thins.
He moves on.
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