"What did he say?"
The chaotic noise of the conference room vanished instantly, replaced by a stunned silence. It was as if someone had sucked all the oxygen out of the room.
George Sutton and Diane Lee stared at their son-in-law, their mouths agape. They looked at him as if he had suddenly sprouted a second head.
"Buy them all?"
Did he know what he was saying? The total value of the investments was two hundred million dollars.
"Are you insane?" a relative finally shouted, breaking the spell. "Purchase everything? Do you think two hundred million is the price of a cabbage?"
"You stinking ex-convict! You couldn't earn that much money in a hundred lifetimes, even if you didn't eat or drink in prison!"
"He's a freeloader who relies on the Sutton family for his daily bread, and he wants
