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‘And me.’
Ha-ha-ha...
They shared their little laugh and Beatrice wanted to poke out her tongue at their friendliness as Jordan said goodbye to him. Instead, she turned back to her video and watched as the royal family all walked back into the palace from the balcony, the King reaching for his wife’s hand and her brushing it off.
Whoa!
Beatrice rewound.
Oh, yes, she had!
‘I’ll see you tomorrow, sir,’ Jordan said.
‘No doubt.’
‘Oh, before I go...’ Jordan stopped. ‘No. It’s nothing.’
‘You know I hate that,’ Julius said. ‘Say what you were going to say.’
‘Very well. Have you got that book?’
‘Book?’
‘The one I lent you.’
‘Oh, I thought it was a gift.’
Beatrice found herself looking over, enjoying the very rare sight of Julius squirming.
‘No,’ Jordan said. ‘I told you it was a loan.’
‘I’ll get on to it.’
‘You haven’t read it, have you?’ Jordan said. ‘Sir...?’
‘Jordan, Ihaveread it.’ He must also have seen her disbelief. ‘I have—along with all your endless and very personal notes in the margins. We used to get fined if we did that at school.’
She smiled. ‘You’ve never paid a fine in your life, sir.’
‘I’m just letting you know that I did read it.’
‘Did it help?’
‘It did—thank you. I’ll get it back to you.’
He pulled a face when she’d safely gone, and swore under his breath, but then he must have remembered that Beatrice was there and he half turned his head.
‘She keeps asking for it.’
‘Oh?’
‘I think I might have tossed it into the ocean.’
‘You threw her book into the sea?’
‘It annoyed me.’ He took out his phone and called Tobias, asking him to call the staff on his yacht to have another look for it. ‘Honestly, never lend me a book.’
‘I won’t. What was it about?’
