Jake left the lounge with his blood humming like fire under his skin.
The truth was clearer now, but it didn't make the betrayal sting less.
Just like Chloe has suggested. Just like his instincts had been telling him but he'd refused to believe, his brother, his own brother had drugged him.
He reached the parking lot and stopped beside his car, one hand braced on the roof as the weight of it hit him.
Raymond drugged me.
The thought sounded absurd even inside his head.
Raymond — his brother who'd sat beside him in board meetings, who'd toasted with him at family dinners, who'd sworn loyalty to him when everyone else wanted a piece of StoneTech—that Raymond?
He knew Raymond could be hot-blooded but going to this extent?
Jake's jaw tightened. He wanted to believe there was some mistake. Maybe he'd seen it wrong. Maybe there was another explanation.
But the footage didn't lie. The powered substance. The call. The way Raymond had acted the next morning like he knew nothing.
