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Chapter 859
The message came up to the breakfast room from the Baroness's maid while Serena was still drinking her coffee."The Baroness asks Mr. Gideon and his family to come to the great hall. All three of them. Now, please."Gideon put down his cup so carefully that it did not make a sound. "All three?""What could she want?" said Marissa. "She never calls us anywhere. She sends notes."Serena looked at Alex, then at her father."It's the house," she said quietly. "It has to be the house.""No, no," said Gideon. "Mother knows it was a gift. Alex will just explain it to her again, nicely. Won't you, Alex?""Of course," said Alex.The great hall of the Tiffany house had not been opened since the dinner for Victor Russell's fall. Now every chair along both walls was full.The old aunts and uncles of the house sat in a row on each side like a jury, with their hands folded on their sticks and their handbags. Pauline stood at the Baroness's right hand. Patricia sat just behind her, turning the new r
Chapter 858
Tyler Hunt sat on the steps of the Royal with his broken hand in his lap, and nobody came back for him.His friends had run for the cars. The cars had gone. Down on the harbour road the taxis went past with their lights on and did not stop for a boy with blood on his shirt.Patricia stood at the top of the steps with Chloe pulling at her arm."Come on. My driver's here. Leave him."Patricia did not move. She looked at Tyler Hunt, the only son of the Hunts of the north shore, sitting on the cold stone like a lost dog.If she wanted him, waiting around wasn't an option anymore. She was going to have to hunt him down.Then she shook Chloe off."Go home, Chloe.""What? Patricia, he ran first. He didn't even look back for you.""I know." Patricia went down the steps in her white birthday silk and crouched beside him. "Tyler. Can you stand?"He looked up at her. His face was grey. "My hand...""I know, darling. I'll take him home," she said over her shoulder. "Somebody has to."Chloe stared
Chapter 857
The men stood shoulder to shoulder in the doorway, and behind them the corridor was full of black shirts as far as the lift.Patricia grabbed Chloe's hand. Preston lay on the carpet where the fat man had left him, breathing through his teeth.His girl sat frozen on the sofa beside the fat man, with the fat man's hand still in her hair."I gave you a door, boy," said Ronald Kessler. "For my father-in-law. And you used it to kick my man across my own table."He shook his head, almost sadly. "So now we do it my way. You kneel. Right there, on my carpet, in front of your friends, and you say sorry to Bruce. I'll give you three seconds."Nobody in the room made a sound."Three.""Alex," whispered Nora."Two."Alex did not move from his chair."One.""My turn," said Alex. "I'll give you three seconds, Mr. Kessler. Nora walks out of that door, and nobody follows her."Behind the boys, Patricia made a small
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The bottle broke over Preston's head.He went down on the white carpet of the Imperial Hall in a rain of glass, and the fat man came down after him, slowly, the way a man gets into a warm bath."You kicked me," he said. "In front of my friends."He kicked Preston in the stomach. Then again, and again, until Preston curled up round his plaster arm and could not breathe.Then the fat man put his foot on the plaster and leaned his whole weight on it. Preston screamed louder than Tyler had."Come and find me, you said." The fat man was laughing now, out of breath. "Well, I found you."Nobody stopped him. Kessler watched from the white sofa as if it were a show on television. The boys looked at the floor. Alex looked at Preston, and said nothing.When the fat man had hit Preston as much as he liked, he wiped his hands on his trousers and turned round.Preston's girl in red was pressed against the wall with both hands over her mouth."And you," said the fat man. "You slapped me."He took he
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The hand never came down.Alex had the man by the arm, an inch from Nora's cheek.He had not gone home. He had waited at the top of the stairs for Nora, and when the first scream came, he ran.The man in the black shirt pulled."You'd better let go of this woman," said Alex. "She is not the one who has a problem with you."He nodded at the floor, at Preston curled round his plaster arm and Tyler lying in the cognac. "The people you want are there."Nora let out the breath she had been holding.Another black shirt stepped over Preston with his fist already up, straight for the back of Alex's head."Wait," said Bruce from the doorway.He had not raised his voice. He did not need to. The fist stopped in the air.The giant looked at Alex for a long moment, and at the arm Alex was holding, and at his own man, who could not pull it free."Leave the man and the woman," said Bruce. "We still have a job to do."Alex let go. The black shirt rubbed his arm, stepped back, and did not look at him
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Tyler hit him. The cracked glasses flew off and bounced across the carpet.Tyler hit him again, and the old man fell against the gold sofa with both hands over his face."Please," he said. "I'm only looking for my daughter."The room laughed. Chloe had her phone up again."Twice in one night!" she said. "Tyler, you're a legend."Tyler pulled back his fist a third time.A hand closed round his wrist.Nobody had seen Alex get up. He held Tyler's fist in the air as easily as if it were a cup of tea."Enough," said Alex.Tyler pulled. The hand did not move. He pulled harder, until his face went red, and still it did not move."Let go of me, kennel boy.""He's an old man. He's said sorry to you twice. That's enough."For one second, nobody in the room laughed. Then Alex opened his hand.Tyler stumbled backwards into the table, and a bottle of twenty-thousand-dollar cognac went over and glugged out onto the carpet."Somebody else is paying for that too," said Alex.He knelt, found the glass
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