Alex drew in a rapid breath. She had thought she knew wealth. She lived in Silicon Valley, after all, had grown up in New York City. She had seen the carelessness with which classmates and coworkers talked about trips to foreign countries, bought clothes and coffee without budgeting. But there was the kind of money that Alex dreamed of, that Alex made—the kind that, even now, did not feel like quite enough—and then there was this. Fifty million dollars. There were five of them here. Ten million dollars each could buy everything her family needed, more.
