CHAPTER 25

Dinner wasn't as fantastic as Mark expected when it came to the food. Due to Jayden's interference Mark had his own menu with his options dramatically reduced. He'd been looking forward to some more of the lobster or those delicious prawns from lunch, but ended up with a grilled tuna steak and poached egg on a bed of quinoa, a substance a lot like couscous, but delicately spiced. It was delicious, but when he saw everyone else tucking into steak, lobster, mussels, spicy noodles, and a dazzling array of vegetables he definitely felt restricted.

Eight of them sat around a table in the dining area next to the bar. Mark was joined by his sisters, Jasmine, Heidi and Garius, and Henry and Mister Yousef completed the party. What started off as a fairly subdued group quickly opened up as each of them told funny stories about themselves, knowing that Mark, Myra and Maddy didn't really know any of them.

Mark told them of how he'd been so h