Chapter 4
Matthias looked up when a knock sounded at his study door, indignation and then anger sweeping through him. His butler had ushered his man-of-affairs, George Fiske, into the study barely a half-hour earlier and the staff knew better than to interrupt him in the middle of such a meeting. Someone was about to lose a very comfortable position.
“Enter,” he practically growled.
Apparently his staff did know better than to interrupt him, for it was Ömer who entered the study. Although officially merely Matthias’ valet, Ömer had at various times served as Matthias’ cook, apothecary, driver, and bodyguard since they’d first met in Algiers. And despite the fact that Matthias employed both a butler and a housekeeper, it was Ömer who ran the entire household. If Ömer was willing to inter
