The gist of it was this: Inman's mother's family was only willing to fold their entire estate into The Wheeler Group on one condition-the assets could not end up in the hands of the children from the second marriage, unless Herbert was out of the

picture.

In the end, Herbert's father caved under the pressure of the entire family and made his choice.

Timothy's face was ice-cold, his lips pressed into a hard, thin line.

He didn't need more than this one headline to figure out exactly what it meant.

He'd looked into this before: the chairman of The Wheeler Group doted on

Herbert for his mother's sake, and always meant to hand the company over to him one day.

But Herbert had given it all up.

As for why-Timothy knew perfectly well.

It looked like Herbert had gone to Aetherion, too.

Timothy glanced down at his own legs, his irritation growing.

eyes glued to his wife,

He dialed Vince's number.

you see the

course he saw

just laughed. "There's so much news out there which one are you talking

with me. You know exactly which one. Can

"Oh, I get it. You mean the piece about The Wheeler

a cold huff. "I doubt he thinks it's rough at

heartless? The guy misses out on the family fortune and you think he's not

you are such

Vince definitely did. He was just saying this to get

fraud. But when you need something, it's always 'Vince, help me out.' When you don't, suddenly it's back to calling me by my full

his first name in years. Not since

a real knack for hitting him where it hurt-always knew exactly

you still owe me for stabbing me in the

on my way up with

he finished speaking, Vince pushed open the hospital room door and hung up

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