Dominic's POV The hotel launch is the third day. A morning of final walkthroughs and a press event at noon and a dinner in the evening for the regional partners and investors. Marcus flies in for the day and arrives at the hotel looking like someone who has slept on a plane and doesn't mind. "Emma," he says when he sees her in the lobby. He kisses her cheek. "You look like Singapore agrees with you." "It does," she says. "Good food?" "Extraordinary food." He looks at me over her head with the expression he's been using since October, satisfied and slightly insufferable. Emma goes to the hotel restaurant to spend the morning with the pastry team, which she arranged herself by emailing the head chef two weeks ago. I find out about this from the chef himself during the walkthrough, who

