The giant digital screens hanging high on the ballroom walls glowed with a bright, blinding green light. Every single eye in the massive room was glued to the moving numbers, watching the market data change at a crazy speed.

Vane Holdings stock was not falling. It was not crashing. It was leaping higher and higher with every single tick of the clock. Ten percent up. Twenty percent up. Fifty percent up. The entire global market was going wild because the three most powerful brothers in New York and Europe had officially joined all their wealth, assets, and bloodlines together behind one single queen.

Silas stood on the edge of the...