"Because Rose sold her shares to me," Lucas replied with a self-satisfied smirk.

I drew back in shock. What? Why would she do that?

I remembered vividly when Mark had confidently told me that he held more shares and became the de facto head of the GT Group because his mother's five percent was added to his own forty-six percent stake. So what did Rose selling her shares to Lucas mean now? No shareholder—especially the greedy ones here in this room—would allow a partially sick man to head them with less than a majority of the company's shares.

Even if Mark hadn't lost his memory, he still would not be...