2024-09-19 00:01:47Jack turned, his demeanor instantly shifting as he sized up Alex.
Puffing out his chest like a blowfish, his fists clenched, and his eyes narrowed with hostility.
"So, you're the one extorting and harassing my sister, huh?" Jack sneered.
"Let me warn you: a pathetic man like you had better stay away from her. Keep pestering her, and you’ll be digging your own grave."
Alex snorted, amused.
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Two men pinned Preston's right hand flat on the table."The gold room costs ten thousand," Bram said. "This room costs a hundred thousand. You eat a hundred-thousand dinner on a ten-thousand ticket? You came here to rob us?""No! Please! I'll pay for all of it!"Bram brought the stick down.The crack was louder than the scream. "My hand! My hand!" Preston slid to the marble, his good trousers dark and wet.Nora ran round the table and pressed in behind Alex, both hands in his old jacket."Are they allowed to do that?" she whispered. "Are they allowed to kill people here?""No one will touch you while I'm here," said Alex.He had a bread roll in his hand. Nora almost laughed. But her fingers stayed in his jacket.Bram turned to the count. "And you. My man says you told everyone they knew a count when they saw one."Count Charles stood up very straight, all ten rings shaking. "Do you know who I am? I am Count Charles of the capital! One call from me, and this whole house…""Count of wha
Chapter 835
The Diamond Room was one long black table, twelve chairs and a wall of glass over the harbour. The last of the sun lay red on the water below.Preston put Nora at the head of the table, the count on her right and himself on her left. Patricia sat beside her count.Alex took the chair in the corner, next to the bread basket.The food came without anyone ordering it. Lobster on ice.Oysters in a silver bowl. A whole fish baked in salt, cracked open at the table, so the smell of lemon and the sea came up into the room.Then a bottle of wine so old that its label had gone brown.Count Charles turned the bottle to read it, and his moustache went very still."Preston," he said quietly. "What did your grandmother pay for the room?""Ten thousand." Preston leaned back. "Why?""This bottle alone costs more than your whole room."Preston's face slipped. He looked at the lobster. He looked at the door. "They… they must know who I am. I am a hero for people around here. A savior."Nora lifted h
Chapter 834
"The same house! Did you hear that? The idiot has a table at the Grand!" He wiped his eyes. "You can't afford the bread there, boy. You can't afford the smell of the bread."Across the cobbled yard, Patricia laughed behind her sunglasses. Even Count Charles laughed, high and thin, like a teacup knocking a saucer."A table at the Grand," the count said. "Do you know, I tried to book there myself once, from the capital. They told me to call back next year.""I thought you knew it well," said Alex.The count's ears went pink. "Know it, yes. Eaten there, no. One doesn't push.""And which room did you book, cousin?" Patricia asked sweetly. "The one by the kitchen? The broom cupboard?"Alex thought about it, very seriously."The lady said the Diamond Room."Preston stopped laughing. Then he started again, louder."The Diamond Room! Do you know who eats in the Diamond Room? Not ten people on this coast have ever sat in it. The governor asked once and didn't get in! Grandmother couldn't get i
Chapter 833
Serena still had the jade on in the morning.She sat on the end of Alex's narrow bed in the garage wing, dressed for work, and touched it twice while she put on her shoes. She said nothing about the roof, or about what Mark Ellis had whispered in her ear.The garage wing smelled of warm toast and old dog, and he was busy with the toast.Then her phone rang, and her whole face changed."Nora? Nora Hale? Is that really you?" She listened, and laughed out loud. "You're joking. Here? Today?"Alex looked up. He had not heard his wife laugh like that in a long time."I can't believe it. Nora, my best friend, is coming here.""Nora?" Alex asked."Nora was my best friend at school, and we worked together at a perfume company in the capital. Before the tower. Before everything." She stopped for a moment. "Her family are the Hales. A big old family. Big money. Hotels, restaurants, half the capital's shops.""Why would a Hale come to Westmere?" Alex asked."Family business." Serena lowered her v
Chapter 832
Patricia's slap rang across the roof like a dropped plate.Nobody moved. A waiter froze with a tray of glasses in his hands. At the next table, the old lady in diamonds slowly put down her fork.The manager did not touch his cheek. A red handprint came up on it, one finger at a time."Did that hurt?" Alex asked him, worried. He held out his napkin. "You can have this. It's clean. Mostly.""Thank you, sir. It's quite all right."The manager turned to Patricia. He was still perfectly polite. That was the scary part."You asked who gave me the nerve, madam. Ms. Vale did. Her company, Halcyon, owns this hotel from tonight. And you have just slapped the manager of a Halcyon hotel, on a Halcyon roof, in front of Halcyon's guest." He lifted one hand. "Security."Two men in dark suits came from beside the lift. They were very big and very quiet."Don't you dare touch me!" Patricia backed against her chair. "I'm a Tiffany! I'm Mr. Ellis's guest! Mark! Tell them!"Mark Ellis looked out at the s
Chapter 831
"Mark Ellis is back."Marissa said it to the whole Tiffany kitchen like news from the palace.Serena did not look up from her tea. "Is he."Mark Ellis. The boy with the very white teeth who had courted her for one summer, before the house married her off to Alex. He had stopped calling the week her mother died."Three years abroad, and he's come home rich," Marissa went on. "He's taking the whole family to dinner tonight, on the Seacrest's roof. And he asked for you specially."At the end of the table, Gideon hid behind his newspaper. It was upside down. Nobody told him.Marissa held out her phone for everyone to hear."Serena. It's Mark. I hear your mother's name isn't on her perfumes anymore. I want to put money behind them, under her own name again. Come to dinner and let me show you the numbers."Her mother's name, on a bottle again. The promise she had made at her mother's bed. The one thing she could not say no to, and somehow Mark Ellis knew it."I'll come," she said. "For my m
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