Chapter 4

“Oh no. I hoped that was just a rumor.”

Of course, it was all over the place by now. Wally would’ve run his mouth, and who knew what the rest of the family had said. The board were loyal to Race’s memory, but no one else who’d ever met him would be. The board were the only ones who got anything worthwhile out of him in life, and even then, it was only money.

It wasn’t the money Ted wanted. It was the opportunity to do things right. To make the people who’d worked for and stuck by his family proud. To show everyone what he was really about—and that he was nothing like his father. Ted had worked too, dealt with his father’s emotional abuse and neglect day in and out for twenty-four long fucking years.

He wanted vindication. He wanted what was owed. And he was going to have it. “I’m serious. Five-hundred thousand now, five-hundred thousand after five years, another million after ten. I’ll sign a prenup and everything. But it can’t be a woman.”