Chapter 61
The conference room at Archer Industries felt like a battlefield disguised as a boardroom. Everyone had taken their positions with the careful strategy of soldiers arranging for combat—Rhys and Ravyn on one side, the Archer family and their team on the other, and Dante occupying the uncomfortable middle ground of someone who belonged to neither camp but was trapped between them both.
Conrad Archer led the meeting with the aggressive confidence of a man who'd built his fortune through intimidation and calculated risk. He outlined Archer Industries' proposal for a joint venture with Larsen Enterprises—something about combining their respective technologies for a new product line that would supposedly revolutionize their market sector.
It all sounded legitimate on the surface. P
