CHAPTER FOURTEEN
intrusion
This will require delicate handling. If Iona discovers Rupert is keen to our arrangement, she will ghost out and then circle back for the red beryl when I’m not expecting it, long after the Ramirez brothers have dispatched with Finan.
We are approaching forty-eight hours since his abduction, but the business of running Thalia Island continues unperturbed. I am grateful to Mrs. Corwin for taking the wheel and managing what she can without making too much of a fuss. She handles press inquiries just as one would expect—without patience or time for their meddlesome interference. Benny promised before he’s staying on top of the contractor schedules for the farm B rebuild, and a Lutris memo this morning addressed that anyone not helping with the search can resume th
