By the time the paramedics arrived, Gerald had gone cold.
The medic shook his head and drew the white sheet over him.
I exhaled slowly. It had gone according to plan.
Because Gerald had died unexpectedly and left no will, the law ran its course without complication. His entire estate passed to me, including Ashford Equestrian Club. I was now the new owner of Ashford Equestrian Club. Mrs. Calloway's face when she realized it was something I would not soon forget, though there was nothing she could do about it.
I dismissed her, handed the club over to Luca to manage, and had every last one of those cameras torn out.
The saddles, I kept.
I renamed the club, stripped away everything that had made it ugly, and turned it into what it should have been from the start, a place that offered no
