Meridian's final move came on a Monday in the first week of April, and it came, as Ernest had predicted, from a direction they had not fully anticipated.Not a revised offer. Not a legal challenge. Not a press approach, though the press approach had been circling — there had been an enquiry to the estate's PR firm from a property industry journalist that had had the fingerprints of a planted question. No: Meridian's final move was operational, and it was surgical, and it was designed to create a problem that neither of them could solve from a distance.They had approached Andrew Sutton.This emerged through a conversation between Andrew and Helen Marsh on a Monday morning that Helen, to her considerable credit, brought immediately and directly to both Ernest and Don rather than attempting to manage it herself. She sat them down in the east wing office and told them, with the composed directness of a woman who had managed this estate through several difficult periods and had no patienc
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