I Funded Their Empire for Years, So They Sent Me the Bill novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: The House
The engraver read the email over my shoulder and set his beer down very gently.
"Sold," he said. "Without a board minute."
"Without a condition report," Ottoline said. "Without its curator. Without a single person at this table."
The young lad looked at the cup on the bench, sitting in its grey flannel.
"Can she do that?"
"She can announce it," I said. "Announcing isn't doing."
Cian took his phone back and put it face down.
"Thursday, then," he said.
"Thursday," I said, and the whole long table nodded, as if we'd voted.
On Wednesday at noon I stood in my mother's kitchen with my coat on and my hands in my pockets.
The sea was grey and high behind the glass.
Petra had asked for noon. She'd asked for her mother, and for Cian, and for the solicitor from Merrion Square.
He came last, out of a taxi, with his briefcase held in front of him.
He looked at me once in the hall and then at the floor.
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