Once he was back in New York, Arthur shattered into a million jagged pieces.
He drowned himself in a relentless sea of liquor, locking himself inside his apartment day and night. That same apartment that had once hummed with laughter and warmth was now a wasteland of empty bottles and papers scattered like fallen leaves.
He abandoned the office, blew off every meeting, and single-handedly torpedoed two core merger deals worth tens of billions of dollars.
The Ashford family board erupted in volcanic fury. Logan, the majority shareholder and the iron fist behind the family, wasted no time. He convened an emergency board session and stripped Arthur of his CEO title, snatching back every scrap of decision-making power, all on the grounds of a mental state unfit for leadership.
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