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Chapter 97: Lucas Admits Something
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I stayed on the phone with Olivia for another twenty minutes.We didn’t say much. She told me about a restaurant in London she’d been meaning to tryfor six months and still hadn’t. I told her about a meeting I had Thursday. Normal things.The kind of conversation you have not because either of you needs information but becauseyou need to stay in the same space a little while longer before the night closes.When we hung up, I stood at my window for a moment. The city was doing what NewYork always did, moving, lit, enormous and indifferent. Somewhere across it, in a penthouseon the upper east side, a plant named Elena was sitting in a window getting the light itdeserved. I thought about that longer than was probably reasonable. Then I went to bed.Margaret called three days later.Not a text. Not an email routed through Adrian’s assistant. A direct call, her name on myscreen like a small, precise statement of intent. From Margaret, that meant something.“Ava,” she said. “I’d like
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Ethan did ask about the construction timeline the next morning.He asked before he had fully sat down at the breakfast table, which was a new record evenfor him. I told him Reeves was moving the column this week. He nodded with the satisfactionof someone who has flagged a structural issue and seen it addressed within a reasonabletimeframe. He ate his breakfast. He went to school. The morning resumed its normal shape.It was the following Thursday, Ethan’s day at the penthouse, when the plant situationcame to a head.I found out about it the way I found out about most things that happened during theTuesday-Thursday arrangement: from Adrian, who called at six with the specific qualityin his voice that means something has happened that he is finding funnier than he expectedto find it.“How many plants does the penthouse currently have?” I asked before he could sayanything.“Eleven,” he said. “Until this morning.”“What happened this morning?”“One of them died,” he said. “The one
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I told Ethan about the column the next morning over breakfast.He received the information with a stillness that lasted approximately four seconds, whichfrom Ethan was the equivalent of anyone else needing to sit down. Then he said: “I knewthe model was wrong. I ran the geometry three times in my head while we were standingthere.” He picked up his toast. “Did she say when they’re moving it?”“She didn’t specify,” I said.“They should move it before the foundation pour,” he said. “If they’ve started pouring itbecomes significantly more complicated.” He looked at me. “Can Adrian find out wherethey are in the construction timeline?”“I’ll ask him,” I said.“Today would be good,” Ethan said. Not urgently. Just informationally. The toast wasapparently also acceptable. He finished it and went to get his bag.I texted Adrian: Ethan wants to know where they are in the construction timeline for themidtown development. He’s concerned about the foundation pour.Adrian texted back eleven m
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The ice cream was chocolate. Ethan emerged from his room the moment he heard thefreezer open, which suggested the nominal homework had reached a natural pause, andsat at the table with the focused efficiency of someone who had known exactly what washappening in the kitchen and had timed his appearance accordingly.“The Forth Bridge book,” he said to Adrian, between spoonfuls. “Did you know thecantilever design was chosen specifically because the engineers didn’t trust suspensionat that span at that time? They were right to be cautious. The technology wasn’t there yet.”“I did not know that,” Adrian said.“Most people don’t,” Ethan said. He finished his ice cream. He looked at Adrian with theassessing expression he uses when he is about to propose something. “When are yougoing to show me the Blackwood building properly? Not just the board floor. All of it.”Adrian looked at me. I looked at the table.“Saturday,” Adrian said. “If your mother agrees.”“Saturday is fine,” I said.E
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I finished the vendor contract at four thirty-seven and felt the specific satisfaction ofcompleting something that had been sitting on my desk for three days and requiringmore careful attention than its modest appearance suggested.Some things are like that. They look routine from the outside and contain, on close reading,the kind of precision that makes the difference between a good outcome and a costly one.I had been in the business long enough to never underestimate a vendor contract.I closed my laptop. I picked up my coat. I went to collect Ethan from school, which I didon Tuesdays when the afternoon allowed, which it more often did now that the crisis hadresolved and the work had settled into its normal shape.He was waiting on the pavement outside with Noah, who had apparently also been thereand was in the middle of explaining something about the school’s HVAC system that Ethanwas listening to with the focused attention of someone receiving valuable information.“The du
The Billionaire’s unknown Heir Chapter 97: Lucas Admits Something
Adrian had somewhere to be at eleven and I walked back to the office alone, which wasits own kind of thing. Not sad. Just the specific particular quality of being a person whohas somewhere to be and someone to leave and is entirely fine with both of those facts.I had been in the office for forty minutes, working through a vendor contract that neededcareful reading, when Lucas appeared in the doorway.He did not knock. Lucas does not knock. He opens doors with the confidence of a manwho has decided that if he is going somewhere he is welcome there, which in the case ofanywhere I am has been true for thirty-something years and shows no sign of changing.He came in. He sat down across from me. He put his briefcase on the floor with theparticular deliberateness of a man who has rehearsed this entrance, which Lucas neverdoes for ordinary visits. He looked at the wall slightly to the left of my head, which iswhat Lucas does when he has something to say and is organizing the right o
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