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.

did everyone have their eyes glued to his wife, acting like he didn't even

He dialed Vince's number.

you see the

he saw

news out there

You know exactly

get it. You mean the piece about The Wheeler Group? Saw it, yeah. The two sons fighting over the inheritance, and poor Herbert

let out a cold huff. "I doubt he thinks

The guy misses out on the family fortune and

you are such

might not know the real story, but Vince definitely did. He was just saying this to get under Timothy's

help me out.' When you don't, suddenly it's back to calling me by my full

first

it hurt-always knew exactly what

forget, you still owe me for stabbing me in the back. How are

way up with

finished speaking, Vince pushed open the hospital room

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