Vance Logistics.

She held a significant stake in it, shares that had been in our family for a long time.

And fifteen years ago, that company became the target of a hostile takeover, an aggressive and frankly ruthless effort by outside interests to seize control of it, and the people behind that effort were not gentle, and they were not above using the families of shareholders as leverage.

Your mother understood that as long as she was publicly connected to those shares, to that fight, you and Chloe could be used against her.