Grandparents Demand Their Daughter Surrender Her Company Shares—Then the Billionaire They Called Her Baby’s Father Walks Into the Hospital.
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Chapter 20 - “DID YOU JUST CALL MY SON FATHERLESS?”Weeks later I asked Alistair why he had said it that way.
We were walking Kirk around my living room at two in the morning.
“You sounded like you were about to buy the hospital.”
He smiled.
“I was angry.”
“You terrify people when you’re quiet.”
“I’ve been told.”
“What were you going to say after?”
He looked down at Kirk.
“Nothing useful.”
“Meaning?”
“I was going to tell your father that if he touched your shares I’d bury him in litigation until he forgot what year it was.”
I stared.
“Romantic.”
“I didn’t say it.”
“Because?”
“You looked at me.”
I remembered.
One glance.
Enough.
He said:
“I realized you didn’t need me to threaten anyone.”
“Correct.”
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“You needed the room to stop.”
That was exactly right.
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Chapter 21 - MY PARENTS LOSE THE BOARDROOMThe special committee recommended postponing the restructuring.
Chapter 22 - MY MOTHER HOLDS KIRKIt happened when he was four months old.
Chapter 23 - MY FATHER RESIGNSDad resigned as CEO nine months after Kirk’s birth.
Chapter 24 - ALISTAIR AND MEWe did not get married because a baby squeezed his finger in a hospital.
Chapter 25 - THE SHARE LAWSUIT THAT DIDN’T HAPPENMy parents’ attorneys threatened litigation over the hospital documents.
Chapter 26 - THE VOTE I CAST MYSELFEighteen months after Kirk’s birth, Whitaker Medical held its annual shareholder meeting.
