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“Again, if you wish.”
“I think it’s real for Portia.”
He appeared openly dubious.
But he said, “You control her money. You’re intelligent and shrewd. You’re successful and don’t need a man or your father’s money. If there’s something to see through, you’ll see through it. If her happiness means more to you than his games, you’ll give her what she wants. Then it’ll be on her. You don’t care about the money. You’ve given half of yours away already.”
Yes, he investigated me…us…thoroughly.
“You can live a long time on fifty billion dollars.”
“I’d bet half my own fortune that half of the rest of yours will be in the hands of charities in the next two years.”
He’d win that bet, so I didn’t take it.
“Are we only allowed to be in our bedrooms, the Pearl Room, the Wine Room, this room and the dining room?” I asked.
“Of course not. I’ll follow you to the hall.”
This offer wasn’t gentlemanly behavior. My ass looked great in these cords. And if I preceded him, he’d be able to watch it.
Whatever.
I led our way to the hall and stopped by the newel post.
“You get two questions here, petal,” he stated, stopping a few feet away from me.
Petal.
I didn’t like that he used the name on me that he’d used with my sister.
I let my expression convey that, he caught it, I knew because of his smirk, then I said, “You know my questions already, so answer them, please.”
“She’s Persephone, wandering the Elysian fields.”
The woman of the statue was wandering the afterlife.
How fitting for Duncroft House.
“Of course,” I muttered.
He moved away and stood what appeared to be dead center of the wide circle of the entryway.
“And she landed right here,” he stated.
Dorothy Clifton.
Another shiver.
“Do you think it was an accident?” I asked.
“That’s question three,” he told me.
I tipped my head. “Actually, that was the first question I asked.”
Something shifted in his eyes, on his face, an awareness, of me, of us, of this conversation.
It was uniquely thrilling.
