Chapter 23Monte Carlo, the near future
How much did Alex love Monte Carlo? He wanted to live in Monte Carlo. As much as he liked to think of himself as a man of the people, he loved the finer things in life that places like the Monaco municipality afforded its residents and visitors.
“Before you think of buying real estate there,” his financial advisor Daniella Kopf cautioned, “remember that you can barely afford your Williamsburg loft and all your travel expenses.”
That’s because you keep me on such a short leash, he thought. It galled him that he was one of the richest young men in America, in the world, and yet, he had to hustle constantly—for matches, for endorsements—because he couldn’t touch his inheritance until he turned thirty. His mother had known him only too well—both a spen
