We’re a family.”

The word landed in the quiet room and died there.

“We are not a family, Flynn,” I said, without heat, since heat would have given him more than he deserved.

I nodded toward the lead attorney beside me.

“As of nine o’clock this morning, the trust has assumed full operational ownership of Locke Global.

You’ve been formally removed as CEO.

And your parental rights have been suspended, pending the outcome of a criminal inquiry into medical fraud and the attempted abandonment of a patient in critical care.”