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“You’re kidding.”
“Wish I was. I didn’t want them tearing each other apart in here, so I told them I’d hold on to everything until you got back. Didn’t help. Yesterday they ended up fighting, again. Not in the studio this time, though, thank God. They took it to the pavement outside.”
“Jesus Christ.”
“Presco’s the one who started it, I think. He hasn’t even recovered from the last round. Probably escaped the hospital just to throw another punch. But now he has to go back to his ward. Daniel didn’t look much better. EMTs had to scrape him off the concrete.”I stared at the flowers again and visualised punching both infantile men’s faces until they resembled those wilted petals.
They were still knee-deep in the inheritance fight.
Every move was about scoring points.
Neither one gave a shit about flowers, or me, probably.
“Chuck them. All of it. Don’t even bring the next batch inside. Just leave a bin by the door.”Priya gave me a tight grin.
“You got it.”I glanced around the studio.
Nothing was broken.
No smashed display cases, no blood on the tile.
For once, Prescott and Daniel had managed to beat each other senseless without wrecking the place.
Maybe that psychic visit actually did something. 1
At six, Sebastian pulled up outside.
I climbed in.
“We’ll stop by the hospital on the way,” he said.
“What, are you sick?” I scanned him from head to toe.
Everything appeared to be in order.
“No. It’s Edouard. His lungs are going again. He called the family lawyer to the ward, drafting a new will.”We reached the private wing in twenty minutes.
The nurse at reception nodded like she recognised Sebastian.
She probably did.
Outside the room, I could see through the glass: some man in a grey pinstripe suit stood at the foot of the bed, flipping through paperwork.
Edouard was upright, awake, alert enough to scowl.
Sebastian watched for a bit, then turned to me.
“Give me a moment. I won’t take long.”
“Okay. Try not to get disowned.” 1
He pushed the door open.
Edouard jolted upright and immediately started choking on his own saliva.
“You-what the hell are you doing here?”Sebastian strode in “Just checking if you’re still breathing What, nervous?”Edouard glared past him, signalling frantically at the lawyer with wide eyes and a twitchy neck.
The guy either didn’t notice or pretended not to.
Sebastian plucked the folder out of the lawyer’s hand.
“Let me guess. New will? Let’s see how generous you’re feeling today.”
“Put that down!” Edouard shouted at the lawyer, “Marlow, do something! That’s confidential!”Sebastian flipped a page.
“You know Marlowe’s been working for me this whole time, right?”
“What?” Edouard’s eyes widened.
His face dropped a shade.
The veins along his temple pulsed.
“That’s not possible. He’s been with me for twenty years. I trusted him…”Marlowe’s silence said it all.
Edouard’s hand twitched, then fell limp beside him.
He sank against the pillows.
“You planned this.”
“You planned it first.” Sebastian kept flipping pages.
“You’ve been hiding half your assets like you thought I wouldn’t notice. The earlier drafts left out most of it. This one’s got the full haul.”He turned a page with one hand, held the file up to the light with the other.
“Property in Nice, a trust in Zurich, equity in half a dozen start-ups. Plus that offshore account in Belize. Altogether, what-ten billion? Maybe more if I get the art appraised.”Edouard wheezed.
“You used him to get information out of me.”
“Obviously,” Sebastian said, shrugging.
“Took long enough but you finally showed your hand. Let me guess, you called in the lawyer because your lungs feel like shit and you know you’ve run out of time?” a Edouard grabbed the cane from his bedside, swung it at Sebastian’s shoulder, and missed by half a metre.
It clattered to the floor.
“You ungrateful bastard. Are you going to change my will?”Sebastian shut the folder.
“I saved LGII from bankruptcy. You handed everything to Reginald and Declan, and left me with nothing but your last name. If you think I” walking away empty-handed, you’re sicker than I thought.”Marlowe glanced at the door.
His lips twitched when he saw me pressing my ear against the glass like I was trying to phase through it, but he said nothing.
“You could’ve waited to screw me over from the grave,” Sebastian said.
“But you just had to do it while you’re still breathing. So I figured I’d return the favour. While you can still watch.”
“What are you doing here? Eavesdropping?”
The shrill voice snapped my head around.
Gwendolyn Laurent stood in front of me in a powder-blue coat, eyebrows lifted.
“What are you doing here?” she asked again.
I didn’t bother answering that.
“Weren’t you in a hospital bed?”Had she been booted out after Sebastian froze her cards?
She folded her arms.
“Is that how you greet your mother-in-law?”
“You’re not Sebastian’s mum.”
“You’ve got no manners.”
“Manners are reserved for those who’ve earned them.”She rolled up her sleeves.
“Just because Sebastian covers for you doesn’t mean I won’t slap you straight back into the gutter. You’ve got no idea what I’m capable of.”
I smiled and stepped in.
“Go on, then. Try me. Let’s see what happens.”Her nostrils flared, but her hands stayed by her sides.
She knew Sebastian wouldn’t hesitate to bury her if she laid a finger on me.
Still, she couldn’t resist running her mouth.
“My mistake. I should’ve known better than to expect respect from a woman who sent her own father to prison. Word is, your mother’s disowned you. Apparently, she’d rather cosy up to Catherine, who’s not even her real daughter, than acknowledge you. Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?”She reached out, fingers aiming for my cheek.
“Other than a pretty face, you-Ow!”I caught her wrist mid-air and gave it a sharp twist.
“Hands off.”
“Ow-fuck, let go!” she shrieked.
“You’re breaking my wist!”She writhed like a hooked fish, but I didn’t let go.
Sweat broke across her forehead.
Only when I felt her arm start to tremble did I ease off.
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The door behind med open Sebastian stepped out, took in the scene with one, pred me to boss,
“Yeah I’m fine!
He looked Gwendolyn over. What did you do? didn’t do Anything” Her earlier bravado had variat He turned to me, “What were you to talking,bow?
We were just chatting” Gwendolyn cut in quickly I watched her scramble to improve She latched onto my arm like we were best mates,
I was just telling Eleanor about this amazing new taal place in Midtown/ she said, wearing the Lakent smile I’d ever seen.
“We were bonding Right, Elean I gave her a look that made her smile falter, then tossed but a slow, bored “Ch-huhY.
She exhaled like she’d just dodged a bullet, See? We were chatting That’s all Sebastian eyed her sceptically, “Don’t forget what I told you last time?
Thaven’t! I swear! I haven’t seen Rowan Hale since the day, P’ve just been going back and forth between home and the hospital. That’s it. Oh, and I’ve been helplay Declan meet girls. It’s time he settled down. 11 you two know any decent women, send them his way!
She rattled Sebastian didn’t respond, just stared until her voice faded to a whisper.
I’ll, uh, I’ll go check on your grandfather?
She scuttled off Sebastian laced his fingers through mine. She really didn touch you?”Hope. She knows better. She ran her mouth, but that’s After dinner, 1 curled up in bed with my phone.