A board member asked whether company funds had genuinely been used for personal travel.
“Yes,” Arthur said simply.
Mark slammed his hands on the table. He accused his father of setting him up. Arthur raised an eyebrow and replied that he had simply given Mark an opportunity.
“As of this morning,” Arthur said, “you no longer work here.”
The shares, Arthur continued, would be transferred into a dedicated medical trust. That trust would fund Lucas and Noah’s ongoing care and hire full-time nursing support.
Mark looked as though the floor had dropped out from under him.
“You’re giving my company to them?”
“It was never your company,” Arthur replied.
That was when Mark lost what remained of his composure. He shouted. A laptop clattered to the floor. And in the middle of that chaos, he said something that silenced every person in the room.
He said he had been planning to move the boys into a state facility so that Emily would stop, in his words, dragging him down.
The silence that followed was total.
Then Mark noticed Emily standing at the door.
Her Decision
Security had begun moving toward the room. Emily stepped forward and held up her hand.
“I want to say something.”
Mark stared at her.
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