A/N: Hi guys! Sorry for the delay. I was off on vacations for a while!

The very next day he sat at a wide conference room with no windows. He wore a three piece suit, shirt and tie, and even gloves as his father used to. Unlike his father, he dressed all in black.

"As you can see in the copies of the will I have prepared for you," said Jack. "My father left half of the company to me, and half of it to my mother. It was expected though, that my mother would take over the management of the entire company."

A murmur went around them. Jack had anticipated it. After all, his mom had her own company, and the idea that it would take over his father's would not be welcome. Well too bad. He didn't have time for their whining.

"Regrettably, my mother has health issues that prevent her from working right now. She has thus, left the management of both her company, and Spicer Industries to me until she can recover her health."

Jack let them process the information for a moment, and leaned back on his seat.

Why had anyone decided to make this stupid windowless conference room? Once everything was formalized, he was going to turn this room into a warehouse, and have a proper conference room with an entire wall made of windows.

"Does this mean that you intend to take the position of both your parents now?" Asked a man in a perfectly pressed gray suit. Jack recognized him as Daniel Smith, the major shareholder after his father. He held 20% of Spicer Industries. A far cry from Jack's 70%, but still a man that even his father had dared not cross.

"Not at all," said Jack, entwining his gloved fingers. "As you know, my interests lie completely in robotics research and engineering. As such, I will only hold the position temporarily in name only, for as long as it takes my mother to recover her health. I will set up an interim management team that will report back to me while I enroll in a study course at Leipzig University. There will be no major changes in both companies regarding management style at the moment. I am merely a placeholder until my mother recovers her health."

Jack kept speaking, talking about the way he planned to set up the management of the companies, but it felt like he was seeing everything from outside his own body, seeing himself speak with rehearsed words, his face devoid of all emotion.

It was easier this way. A clear path empty of all emotions.