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.

have their eyes glued to his wife, acting like

He dialed Vince's number.

you see

he

so much news out there which one are you talking

dumb with me. You know exactly which one. Can you be

finally raised a brow, a sly smile in his voice. "Oh, I get it. You mean the piece about The Wheeler Group? Saw it, yeah. The two sons fighting over the inheritance, and poor Herbert lost.

let out a cold huff. "I

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

are

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

when you need something, it's always 'Vince, help me out.'

by his first

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

me in the back. How are you going to make

my way up with some

finished speaking, Vince pushed open the

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