Hers To Keep: THE QUINTESSENCE COLLECTION I by Akeroyd Serena

Author:Akeroyd, Serena
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Twenty-One

“Thanks for agreeing to see us, Edward,” Andrei murmured as he shook Edward Jacobie’s hand. “These are my friends, Sean and Sawyer.”

Jacobie’s eyes widened in surprise. “Your housemates, too, if I’m not mistaken?”

Andrei shot him a confused frown as Sean and Sawyer shook hands with the man. “How do you know that?”

“Sorry. An invasion of privacy, I know, but my security detail did a check on you before we started working together. I read the file. I was curious about you.”

Sawyer shot Sean a look, but he shook his head the slightest eighth of an inch to the left, and Sawyer decided to shut the fuck up.

He wasn’t even sure why he was there, except Andrei had said it made sense for Sawyer to show up. If Jacobie was totally unreceptive to answering their questions, they could swiftly turn to business and Sawyer could join in and help sweep things over.

Disinterested in the inane chitchat Andrei and Sean engaged in with the tech mogul, Sawyer looked around the sweet digs.

They were in Surrey, an hour or so away from their home in Kensington. Jacobie’s family home was here, and it was an old country pile.

A lot of the old noble estates had either gone to rack and ruin after the First World War, had been turned over to the National Trust who maintained the historical landmarks while opening them to the public, or were owned by the original families who kept them open to the visitors who funded repairs—Jacobie’s house was none of those three.

Not that that was completely surprising. The man was a billionaire after all.

When he was in England, this house was his HQ. He had a skyscraper all to himself in London, but according to Andrei, he worked here for the most part.

Sawyer couldn’t blame him. The house was not only beautiful, but large; Jacobie’s office was the size of a tennis court. A huge plantation desk overlooked a maze in the garden, while large sofas looked onto a hearth so deep and tall, he could probably step inside it with comfort.

The man was overly fond of taxidermy, with dead stag heads on the wall, bears and even a lion on the floor, but these rich bastards usually were, weren’t they?

He scrubbed his chin, wondering why being in a high tax bracket meant people forgot about carpeting and started having preference for animal corpses, when a knock sounded at the door.

“Come in,” Jacobie hollered.

A maid appeared in a neat black uniform with her hair pulled back in a tight bun. “I’ve brought coffee, sir,” she murmured politely, bowing her head at the tray she was supporting with the flat of one hand.

“Thank you, Maria,” Jacobie replied, smiling as she headed past two onyx and gilt statues of boys that guarded the entry way.

She placed the tray on the coffee table separating the seating area where they’d taken up residence. Sean and Andrei were on the sofa, overlooking the hearth, Jacobie was to the left, in an overstuffed armchair, his view took in the door.

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