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Chapter 854
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
Chapter 853
Tyler unclipped his seatbelt and got out of the car.He walked straight to the grey car and pulled its driver's door open so hard the hinge screamed.The driver was a thin old man in a cardigan, his glasses knocked crooked. His wife sat beside him, holding her neck."I'm sorry," the man said. "I'm so sorry, I was looking for my daughter's place, I didn't see behind me—""You didn't see me?" Tyler took him by the cardigan and dragged him out onto the road. "You crawl out in front of me like a snail, and you didn't see?""Please, young man, it was an accident—"Tyler hit him in the face. The man's glasses went skidding across the tarmac.He fell against his own car, and Tyler hit him again, and again, until he sat down in the broken glass with blood running out of his nose."Stop it!" the woman screamed through the window. "He's sick! Stop it!"All along the road, the party had got out of their cars to watch. Nobody moved to help."Tyler!" Chloe called, with her own phone held up. "Peop
Chapter 852
The next evening, at six o'clock, Alex was in the east room of the Tiffany house when Serena rang from Halcyon."I'm stuck here until midnight," Serena said. Behind her voice, glass clinked and somebody was shouting about labels."The new bottles came in wrong. Every single one. Alex, I need you to do something for me.""Anything.""It's Patricia's birthday tonight. She's taken Nora with her." Serena dropped her voice."Patricia has been hanging on Nora's arm since the day she landed. A Hale from the capital looks very good in a photograph. And Patricia's friends are sharks. Go with Nora. Look after her.""Does Patricia know I'm coming?""She will when you get there." A pause. "Be nice.""I'm always nice.""That's what worries me," said Serena, and hung up.Then the phone buzzed again."Alex? One more thing." Her voice was softer. "Thank you. I've never had anybody I could just ask before.""You have now," said Alex.The coffee house on the harbour front was the expensive one, with li
Chapter 851
"Marissa," Gideon called. “Our safety…”"I'm warning you, Gideon." She marched across the room and pointed one finger at his nose."If you make that boy give this house back, I will divorce you. I mean it. I'll pack my bags tonight. And you can go and live under the stairs with your box of books."Gideon opened his mouth.He looked at his wife's finger. He looked at the little reading room, and then at the holes in the floor, and he could not tell which one frightened him more.He closed his mouth again, and went and sat down on the nearest sheeted chair, very slowly, like a man whose legs had stopped working.Marissa turned to Alex.The sour look melted off her face like butter off hot toast. She came across the room with both hands held out, took Alex's hands, and squeezed."You're a good son-in-law," she said warmly. "Didn't I always say so? A good son-in-law after all.""You said I was good for nothing," said Alex. "About an hour ago.""Did I? I don't remember that." She patted hi
Chapter 850
On the gravel in front of the glass house, every Tiffany leaned in to listen."My young friend!" Mr. Wolfe's voice came out of the phone, and it was a different voice from the one at the Hunt house. Stronger. Warmer. Almost laughing. "Did Nina open it up for you? Do you like it?""I like it very much, sir. Thank you.""No, no. Thank you. I walked to the pond this morning. To the pond! My doctor nearly fell over."Patricia's lips moved without a sound. Mr. Wolfe. The real Mr. Wolfe, the man the whole coast stood up for when he came into a room, was laughing on the phone with the boy from the kennels like an old uncle.She pushed forward and leaned right down over Alex's phone."Mr. Wolfe," she said, loud and sweet. "Mr. Wolfe, it's Patricia Tiffany. You know my grandmother, the Baroness. I'm sorry, but everybody is wondering. Why would you give a house like this to him? For no reason?"There was a short silence on the line."And who are you," said Mr. Wolfe, and his voice had gone as c
Chapter 849
"If it isn't Tyler's," asked Preston, "then who's the owner?"Alex put down his butter knife."Mine."Nobody at the Tiffany breakfast table said a word. Somewhere in the kitchen the kettle began to sing, and nobody got up to take it off.Then Aunt Marissa laughed. It was a short, sour little laugh, and she shook the newspaper flat again."Listen to him. Did you hear that, Gideon? Some young man gets the best house on the whole hill, thirty million dollars, handed to him like a birthday cake." She looked at her stepdaughter over the top of the page."And what did my daughter get? A husband who is good for nothing. He has eaten at this table since the wedding, and he can't even pay for his own toast."Preston was laughing so hard he had to put his coffee down."Yours? The glass house at the top of the hill? Yours?" He pointed his good hand across the table. "Are you laughing at us, you id..."He stopped. Since the night Serena stood up to the Baroness, nobody in this house called Alex a
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