A Crown of Ashes
“And I don’t chat with his errand boys.”
He didn’t even blink. “It’s about the will. You’ll care.”
She snorted, a harsh, bitter sound that hurt her throat. “What, he leave me a stale cookie? Keep his scraps.” She started trudging off, boots slurping in the mud, but Roman kept pace, his umbrella suddenly over her head. It pissed her off, him crowding her like that, like he thought she’d melt.
“It ain’t scraps,” he said, calm as hell. “It’s half his empire. Fifty billion, rough guess.”
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