Chapter 14 — The Wedge

“And the twelve percent?” I asked, looking up at him.

“The stake my mother came here to make me surrender?”

Julian offered a faint, dangerous smile.

“Your twelve percent is the wedge that lets us bypass the shareholder voting block entirely.

You are not surrendering it, Chloe.

You are leveraging it, to assume total operational control.

As of Friday, Vance Development ceases to exist in its current form.