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Chapter 80 - Wicked plans. 
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Ryder, River and Meg sat together in the living room staring at their father with unreadable expressions on their faces. "What did you just say?" Ryder asked in a quiet voice. This was his worst nightmare coming through. It was his father saying the very worst thing he had imagined. In fact, he had not even imagined this. In all of his bad thoughts, he had not imagined that his father would do this.

"You heard me the first time, Ryder," his father, Marshall said, eyeing him carefully. "Well we need you to say it again so we know we did not hear wrong," River said. Meg hit him in the side so he would not speak to their father in that tone. He was already making a bunch of rash decisions and she did not want him to make worse ones just because he did not like the tone with which River spoke to him.

"Archie will be taking over as the CEO and head of the Consortium," he repeated the words that had been a bombshell to the three of them earlier. Even though they had heard it before, it st
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