Chapter 87

Mark 's POV I resisted the urge to smirk when Sydney chose to merge her shares with mine. If only she knew. I smiled as I gauged the sympathy in her eyes, the crease of her eyebrows as she looked between Lucas and me. I turned to the other shareholders with a straight face and announced my sovereign rein. If they thought they could easily get rid of me then they were wrong, very wrong. It had all been thanks to a little bit of patience. Lucas wouldn't have revealed his true intentions to everyone if I hadn't remained patient, sit back and watching him play us all. Ever since Lucas came back, I had been keeping an eye on him. I wouldn't have cared at all about a random man that dropped down the sky and started to claim to be my fucking uncle but it turned out that the two women in my life adored him. Grandma Doris, I could manage but Sydney? Nah. It was infuriating how Sydney was all over him that night and then afterward I ceased to exist to her or matter as a person at least. Not that