2024-09-17 00:01:54"I don’t care whether you want to help me or not. Just stay out of my way," Sophia snapped.
Alex shook his head.
Her understanding was as dull as a butter knife, and her parents were much worse.
There was little hope she would realize the truth any time soon.
Alex felt no obligation to reveal his true self to her, as their relationship had been doomed from the start.
He was simply pl
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Chapter 826
Patricia came back across the yard with the stick, thick as a broom handle and dark with old rain."Patricia," Gideon said. "What are you doing with that?""Helping," Patricia said."Put it down," Serena said quietly."Kneel, and I will.""No."Patricia's mouth went thin. She took the stick in both hands and swung it low and hard at the backs of Serena's legs, with all her weight behind it.Nobody was looking at the idiot.By the shards, Alex flicked a little stone without looking up, the way a man brushes off a fly.The stone hit Patricia's knuckles with a sharp little crack.Her hand jerked. The stick swept past Serena's legs by a finger's width and kept going, round and up, whistling.It smacked Patricia full in her own face.Thwack.For one second the yard was perfectly silent.Patricia swayed, a red stripe rising across her nose. Her lipstick had gone sideways."Oh!" Marissa put both hands over her mouth. "Not on the face, Patricia! You have to be seen!"Cordelia coughed into her
Chapter 825
Serena's thumb hovered over the screen.For a moment nobody in the yard spoke.Then Marissa found her voice, the way she always did when money was in the air."Well, I'm not paying it," she said. "Don't anybody look at me. Gideon, don't look at me either. Who pays if she doesn't? Not us. We don't have a million dollars. We don't have a million of anything.""We have a lot of curlers," Gideon said quietly."Gideon!""Sorry, dear."Patricia didn't laugh. She was watching Serena the way a cat watches a bird with a broken wing.Alex shuffled nearer the blue and white pieces, squatted on his heels, and turned one shard over with a finger."Is it a puzzle?" he asked.Everyone looked at him."Is it a puzzle?" he said again, hopefully. "I'm good at puzzles."Cordelia rolled her eyes to the grey sky. "Somebody take the idiot back to his kennel."The whole yard laughed. One of Marissa's curlers fell out and bounced on the stones."Look at him, Serena," Patricia sang. "Your husband. Your knight.
Chapter 824
Serena hit the cobbles back first.The stones bit through the white bandages under her blouse, and the pain went through her like a hot wire. Two nights ago, in Victor Russell's house, four lashes had split that back open. It had not healed.She did not cry out. She lay still in the pale light under the low grey sky, and breathed.All round the garage-wing doorstep, pieces of blue and white china glittered on the wet black stones. One curved piece still showed half a painted bird, its blue wing broken off at the shoulder."You take everything!" Patricia screamed down at her. "Everything! My position. My fame. And now my vase! This vase was given to me by Grandma. It's worth a million dollars. How dare you break it!"At the yard gate, Alex stood very still.The jewel box sat warm against his heart, inside his old brown jacket.Now there was grit in her hair."Patricia," Serena said, and pushed herself up on one elbow. "I never touched it.""Liar!""I only opened the door."It was the t
Chapter 823
Alex did not argue.He wandered along the glass instead, hands behind his back, and read every little price card, moving his lips."No touching unless you're buying," Gina said."I'm only reading! Is that wrong?" Alex said."It's wrong for you to even walk in here. Poor people have no right to set foot in this place.""Do you know how arrogant you are, judging people like that?" Alex asked mildly. "You're not rich yourself.""Maybe not. But I'm still much richer than you."Alex nodded to himself, as if that settled it, and turned for the door."That's right, sweetheart, off you go," Gina called after him. "This place isn't for you. Try the stalls on the fish quay. That's more your place.""Is that jacket meant to be vintage?" said one of the other shop girls. "So desperate to look rich."The shop laughed.Round the corner, out of sight of the windows, he took out his old phone."Natasha. Larkspur's, on the high street. Come. Hurry. Bring money. I want to buy something.""Yes, sir. I'm
Chapter 822
Alex did not move.He sat slumped in the corner of the cellar with his head against the stones, and in the light from the doorway his face was perfectly white."No," Serena said. "No, no, no."She was on her knees beside him before she knew she had crossed the floor. Along the walls the family pressed back and screamed, sure the Brotherhood had come for them at last: the Baroness, Gideon, Marissa, the aunts."It's me," Serena said, without turning round. "It's only me."She put her hand on Alex's cheek. It was warm.Then, from somewhere deep in his chest, came a long, slow, perfectly peaceful snore."He's asleep," Serena whispered. "He's only asleep.""He's what?" said the Baroness.Nobody could believe it."We sat in the dark all night," the Baroness said slowly, "arguing over which of us they would kill first, and whose fault it was. And he slept. Like a baby.""He sleeps out in the dog kennels," an aunt said faintly. "Of course he can sleep in a cellar."Somebody laughed. Then they
Chapter 821
In Victor Russell's hall, it was so dark that nobody could see his own hand."Lights!" Curtis Bennett's voice cut across the black. "Somebody get the lights!""The switch is dead, boss!" his right-hand man shouted from the stairs."Then use your phones!"A screen woke by the far wall. Its torch came on, bright and white, and the beam swung across the stone floor, across a boot, across the hem of a long coat."I've got light! Over here, I've got—"The man was gone from behind it. The light leapt out of his hand, as if something had struck him and the phone in the same blow, and it went spinning end over end across the hall and burst against the wall.Black again.A second screen lit up by the door. It lasted less time than the first.After that, nobody tried.Then, from the far wall, a thud. A gun hit the floor and slid away across the stone, and nobody had fired it."Who's that?" a man yelled. "Who's moving?""Answer me! Somebody answer me!"The thuds came along the wall, one after an
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