Chapter Twenty One

Victor Sinclair came to Ashgrove on the twenty second of December, and he came on a Tuesday, and he came at eleven in the morning because he had established that his son was on Carlisle Street on Tuesdays.He did not bring nine men with him. He brought one car, one driver, and one lawyer named Coombes, who had worked for the family for twenty six years and who carried a leather folder under his arm and looked as though he would rather have been anywhere else in the world.They found her at the clinic, because a man who has spent eleven weeks looking will eventually find anything.Ethan was out on a house call in Coleby when the bell over the door went, and Olivia was at the front desk covering the telephone for an hour, which she had not done since November, and she looked up and knew exactly who he was before he had said one word.He had Mark's height and Mark's shoulders and none of Mark's face at all."Good morning to you, Mrs. Sinclair," Victor said.The waiting room had two peopl

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Chapter Twenty Two

Ethan found her at twenty past twelve when he came back from Coleby, and he did not ask her one single question. He locked the front door, put the "closed" sign up, made her sweet tea that she did not want, and made her drink it anyway, and then he sat on the floor of the back office beside her with his back against the filing cabinet until she stopped shaking.Then he telephoned the flat above the launderette, and he did it without asking her permission, and it was the only time in their entire acquaintance that he ever went over her head.Mark was in a meeting on the twenty second floor of a building he no longer had a seat in, presenting to a shipping firm that had known his mother.He walked out of it at the fourth slide.He drove the three hours in two hours and twenty minutes, and Daniel, who was in the passenger seat and who had got in without being asked, spent the entire journey saying nothing at all in a very loud way.The clinic door was locked when he got there, and the si

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Chapter Twenty Three

They left Ashgrove on the second of January in the dark, at half past six in the morning, because Olivia did not want anybody on Marsh Lane watching her go.She said goodbye to Ethan Cole in the back office of the clinic on the last day of December, and it took about four minutes, and both of them were extremely careful about it."Your notes are going to Coleby under your real name, and I have already sent the referral," he said. "You will have a midwife by the middle of January, and the number is written on the front page. If anybody in that hospital gives you any difficulty at all about the gap in the record, you telephone this clinic and I will write them a letter that will end the conversation.""You have been very good to me, and I do not know how to say it properly," she said."Then do not say it at all, because I will handle it badly," Ethan said.He gave her an envelope with six weeks of wages in it, which was more than six weeks of wages, and she looked at the amount and look

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Chapter Twenty Four

The study was the one room in that house she had not gone back into.She had walked past the door eleven or twelve times in three weeks, and she had never once put her hand on the handle, and Mark had noticed that and had never once mentioned it, and by the third week in January it had become a thing they were both being careful about.She went in on a Thursday morning at the end of January because Priya Raman needed the insurance schedule for the Carlisle Street lease, and Mark had left it on the desk, and he was in the city until seven.Olivia opened the door and stood in the doorway for a moment.Dark wood walls and a fireplace and books on every shelf. A desk with a lamp on it. The chair she had sat in on the tenth of September with her heart going and a folder of her father's company reports in a bag on her knees.There had been a glass of whiskey on the desk that afternoon, and she had looked at it for twenty minutes.She went in and got the insurance schedule, and it was exactl

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Todos os capítulos de BOUGHT BY THE COLD BILLIONAIRE : Capítulo 21 - Capítulo 24

Chapter Twenty One

Chapter Twenty Two

Chapter Twenty Three

Chapter Twenty Four