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.

everyone have their eyes glued to his wife, acting like he

He dialed Vince's number.

you see

he saw

"There's so much news

dumb with me. You know exactly which

sly smile in his voice. "Oh, I get it. You mean the piece about The Wheeler Group? Saw it,

huff. "I doubt he

so heartless? The guy misses out on the family fortune

are such a

but Vince definitely did. He was just saying this

when you need something, it's always 'Vince, help me out.' When you don't, suddenly it's back to

first name in

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

me in the back.

already on my way up with some

the hospital room door and hung up the

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