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“This is a hard ti”

“You have no idea how I’” Neal spat

“We all loved George, Neal,” Cliff said with an infuriating calmness

“Is that right?” Neal asked, “Then why is it that this whole daer to declare my brother dead?”

“It’s procedure –"

“Screw procedure,” Neal said with veno and ht that it passes to you and a bunch of strangers?”

“We’ve been here a long tiue that we've been here er than you”

Neal recoiled as though he had been struck “Meaning I have no right to the company?”

“You have no idea how to run this coht as well pass to the board We kno things are done, and I believe that George would have agreed with me”

“Don’t you dare say that,” Neal said forcefully “You have no idea what my brother would have wanted”

“And you do?” Cliff challenged unfeelingly

“Yes, I do,” Neal replied with confidence he did not feel “he would have wanted this company in the hands of family He wanted me to be looked after, but more than me, he wanted Elena to be looked after”

Cliff’s eyebroent up at the mention of Elena’s name

“Ah, yes,” he said suspiciously, “the girlfriend you claie had”