Violet told him, "It's done."

Once he had gone through the inheritance process, the mansion would be his, and his alone.

"Bernard's and Felix's families have probably conferred behind the scenes yesterday. Today, Felix agreed to take just 5% of the shares and the rest of your grandpa's properties. Bernard got the rest of the shares."

Roland held 56% of the shares in the company. Felix only taking 5% meant that he was cementing Cody's position as president of the company by leaving him the bigger percentage of shares.

Although Bernard's and Felix's families were in cahoots with each other, they frequently fought among themselves due to their selfish natures. For Felix to agree to make such a big sacrifice meant that Bernard's family must have made some sort of guarantee—either that or Bernard's family had gotten some leverage over Felix's family.

Kevan was not interested in the reasons that made this happen. He only cared whether or not his plan could still proceed smoothly—as long