172|To The Wolves

"I will not vacate my post!" Lukas shouted when calls for him to step down rippled through the room. "I don't need to remind you that I'm the majority shareholder! Nobody can get rid of me! Nobody!"

And the back and forth continued for another heated fifteen minutes before Grayson circled back to the culprit, the person behind the crisis they were all about to find themselves in if news of the embezzlement was somehow leaked.

"Who did this? Who had the balls to dare and steal from the Group?"

"It's the same man who bankrupted the Foundation," Austin announced, pointing straight at Blake.

For a crushing moment, as he watched the light die in his brother's eyes, Austin could see the beginning of their end so clearly. He'd crossed a line by throwing Blake to the wolves, and there was no coming back from it now. They would have to go all the way, even if it meant destroying themselves and each other in the process.

"What is wrong with you, Hawthornes?" Rumbled Maxwell. "You're running th