2024-09-14 00:02:54Sophia scoffed.
"Do you really think bargaining will make you worth millions?"
“That price doesn’t even scratch the surface of my value,” Alex replied with a wink.
“But seeing how eager you are, I decide not to make it too difficult for you. I’ll offer a 99.99999999999999999% discount, so it will be just one hundred thousand. How about it?”
Alex chuckled inwardly.
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Chapter 816
By nine o'clock the whole coast was watching the harbour on its phones, and the Baroness had called the house to breakfast.Nobody was eating there either.The Baroness sat at the head with her cane against her chair, Patricia at her right hand in pale silk. Serena sat beside her husband, who was buttering his third piece of toast.The television on the sideboard showed the docks again. Police tape. Wet cranes. White sheets."All of them," the Baroness said flatly. "Victor Russell and every man he had. In one night.""I heard there were nearly two hundred," Patricia said softly.The door opened, and Preston came in.He had changed his shirt and combed his hair, and he did not look at Serena."Morning, Gran." He kissed the Baroness's cheek. "I suppose you've seen the news.""Sit down, Preston."He sat and buttered a roll slowly, and the whole table waited."I told you I'd make a few calls," he said at last. "I made them."Serena's hand went still on the cloth."What calls?" the Barones
Chapter 815
The idiot had walked out of the Grand a minute after his promise, with two bread rolls wrapped in a napkin for the dog. By midnight the guests were gone, and he had not come back.Serena sat on the Grand's wet steps with her phone. Her father sat beside her in his torn jacket, holding his ribs."I need to find a way to settle this," she said. "Peacefully. Tonight.""Serena." Gideon's voice was careful. "It's Victor Russell. Nobody on this coast will put their hand into that fire. Not for us.""Then I'll ask until somebody does. He thinks Victor Russell will forgive him, Father. He thinks he can walk in and say sorry.""It would be the worst thing you could do. If you cross him now—""He came for me, Father." She looked at him. "When nobody in that room moved, he came for me with a tray. Should I just sit here and watch him die?"Gideon opened his mouth. Then he closed it again.She dialled."Good evening. It's Serena Tiffany. I'm so sorry to call this late. It's about Victor Russell—"
Chapter 814
The bread rolls sat on the side table, neat and untouched.Now the men had Serena by both arms, and the great doors were getting closer.Then somebody stepped into their path, holding a silver tray with nothing on it."Excuse me," Alex said. "That's my wife."The men stopped, mostly from surprise. Connor turned round with the loan folders under his arm."What is this?" he said. "Another hero?""No. A husband."Connor laughed. His men laughed with him, and then five hundred guests laughed from their chairs, because laughing was safer.Connor walked up close and blew cigar smoke into the idiot's face."You've got some nerve, talking to me like that. Do you know who I am? My father is Victor Russell."Alex blinked through the smoke. "My father is the Emperor."He said it the way he said everything, mildly, like a man telling you the time.The laughing stopped.For a moment the whole ballroom remembered at once what nobody ever said aloud. The idiot by the kennels was the Tenth Prince. Hi
Chapter 813
It never landed. Preston Tiffany shoved him back so hard he hit the next table and sent the glasses ringing."Hey! Hey! Who do you think you are? This is a Tiffany party!" "You want a fight? Pick on somebody your own size.""Stay out of this, fat boy, or you'll be sorry.""Ha! Sorry? Come on, then. Show me what you've got!"The man swung. Preston ducked it, clumsy but lucky, and drove a fist into his nose. The man staggered back. Blood ran down over his lip and onto his white collar.For one second, the ballroom was quiet.Then the coast began to clap.Preston turned round slowly with his fists up, and took it all in. It was the best thing that had ever happened to him."You picked the wrong Tiffany, mister."The man wiped his nose with the back of his hand and looked at the blood on it."Do you know who I am?""I don't care who you are! Get out, while you can still walk!"The man smiled with red teeth."You've got guts, fat boy. I'll give you that." He put his dark glasses back on. "
Chapter 812
Patricia laughed again, and this time it went all the way round the ballroom."Kneel? To you?" She stood up from the front row, one cheek still red from the rain. "I made that perfume. Everybody on this coast knows it. I'm not kneeling to anybody.""You didn't make it," Serena said. "You stole it. From my mother's notebook. So kneel.""I won't.""Then don't."Serena picked up the folders from the podium. All of them. She held them up so the whole room could see."These are the House of Tiffany's loans. Every one. They're mine now. Tomorrow I sell them. To anyone on this coast who wants to watch the Tiffanys go under. And I think there will be a long line."The room went dead still.Pauline was on her feet. "You wouldn't dare.""Wouldn't I?" Serena looked down at the front row. At her aunt. At her cousin. At the Baroness beside the podium. "I know exactly what happened, Aunt Pauline. Patricia didn't do it alone. The whole house knew. My mother's notebooks went missing, and nobody looke
Chapter 811
Nobody in the ballroom breathed.Natasha picked up the folders, both of them, and held them against her chest like a schoolbook."The House of Tiffany punished Miss Serena Tiffany tonight," she said. "Before the whole coast. It told us it will not have her. It told us Patricia is its head."She looked down at the Baroness on the step."So this meeting is over. Halcyon will never work with the House of Tiffany again. Not this year. Not ever." A small, cold pause. "I am sorry. But Halcyon does not get played."The Baroness's mouth opened. Nothing came out.Natasha lifted the folders a little higher, so the back of the room could see them."Tomorrow, I will sell these loans. To anyone on this coast who wants the Tiffanys and the Pryces finished." Her eyes went slowly round the tables. "I think I'll have a long line."Nobody laughed. Half the room looked down at their plates, because half the room had wanted exactly that for years."By tomorrow night," Natasha said, "I want to see them lo
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