The Billionaire’s Curse by Newsome Richard

Author:Newsome, Richard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins e-books

Gerald spent the night at a hotel nearby. In the morning he pulled on the clothes he’d been wearing the previous day, rushed his breakfast, and hurried downstairs to find Fry waiting on the street outside. Ruby and Sam were in the back of the Rolls. Gerald climbed in beside them.

“This is very nice,” Ruby said, pushing her shoulders into the leather luxury of the backseat. “I could get used to this.”

“I guess,” Gerald said. “But it has its drawbacks.”

Fry dropped into the driver’s seat and slammed the door. He flung his cap onto the passenger seat and flicked a switch on the dashboard. His muttering was silenced when the privacy screen behind his head reached the ceiling.

Ruby tried to suppress a giggle.

“Who is that guy?” Sam asked. “He hasn’t said a word to us since he picked us up.”

Gerald shook his head. “You know how I inherited a bunch of stuff?”

“Yeah.”

“Well, I got him as well.”

The Rolls eased into the traffic and they started the journey out of London.

“So your folks were okay with you coming away?”

Ruby nodded. “Dad did some work with the Archer Foundation once. He spoke with Mr. Prisk and they were fine.”

“You know how they are,” Sam said as he fiddled with the switches on the back of the front seat. A panel slid aside, revealing a TV screen. “Always wanting to know where you are, who you’re with.”

Gerald had a vision of Vi and Eddie bolting from the church hall in a rush to board the jet to get to the super-yacht in the Caribbean.

“Nope,” Gerald said. “Can’t say I’ve noticed it.”

“Are your parents missing you, d’you think?” Ruby asked.

Gerald chewed on this for a bit.

“At the moment I’m thinking of adopting your parents,” Gerald said. “I’m part of the family, remember.”

It didn’t take Fry long to have them out of London, and soon they were cruising along country roads.

It was a brilliant sunny day and Gerald gazed out the window as hedgerows and stands of oak trees flashed by.

Ruby broke into his reverie.

“Major Pilkington is our bad guy, then?”

Gerald shuffled around to face her.

“Well, sure. He said he had the diamond locked away at Beaconsfield.”

“I guess.”

Sam looked at his sister.

“What do you mean ‘I guess’?” he said. “How much more obvious can it get?”

“Maybe. But what about the thin man?”

“How do you mean?”

“Don’t you think it’s a bit odd that two people are looking for this diamond casket thing?”

“What are you saying?” Gerald asked. “That they’re working together?”

“Why not?” Ruby said. “Maybe the major hired the thin man to do the rough stuff. You know, to be the muscle. He’s after Gerald because he thinks Gerald knows where this casket is.”

“I dunno,” Sam said. “The major didn’t come across as the type who’d hire someone to stick a knife in your ribs.”

“Yeah,” Gerald said. “But I can’t figure out why the thin man isn’t interested in the diamond itself. It’s worth a stack of money.”

“Because the major already has the diamond, dopey,” Ruby said.

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