Quintessence: THE COMPLETE COLLECTION by Serena Akeroyd

Author:Serena Akeroyd [Akeroyd, Serena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Serena Akeroyd Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2020-12-09T18:30:00+00:00

Ten

It made her feel like a boor, but the restaurant wasn’t her favorite. It was one of those places where money talked and only the number of Michelin stars counted. It didn’t matter if a plate consisted of cauliflower jizz and sautéed, baked, sous-vided and cremated duck breast—it was in vogue, and little else mattered.

Mostly she was hangry. After that weirdness this morning at breakfast, she’d put off having anything to eat, thinking she’d be having something nice here, but she’d had a brain fart and forgotten that most eateries in the capital were serving shit like this.

There were four sections to the restaurant, and each one had their own hydroponic garden in play. One side grew basil, and from a distance, she recognized the other three sections grew rosemary, mint, and oregano. It made the room smell nice, she’d give it that, even if the clinical edge to the restaurant put her back up. Everything was white, gleaming white, which made the bright green herbs’ color pop even more.

It was pretentious, as pretentious as the company they were keeping.

Making a mental note to have Kurt take her to her favorite café, Rossi’s, for some coffee and cake after this meeting—she intended on eating something nice today—she watched as Jennifer Houghton flirted with her man.

At first, it had been amusing.

Kurt had introduced Sascha as his partner.

They were always careful to introduce her as such. It could be interpreted in many ways, after all, and that was how they kept under the radar. By being circumspect.

In their position, the fact that they lived in a poly household with a child could, and would, feature in the gossip rags the instant it came to any dick with a camera’s attention. Her men were too infamous and famous, and she hadn’t exactly stayed out of the news with her past emerging in a big way and the small matter of her inheritance.

When her sister-in-law’s case had gone to trial, and the details of the way Elizabeth Jacobie had murdered Sascha’s birth parents had come to light, the press’s interest was renewed with a vigor that had Sascha hiding and becoming reclusive for quite a while.

Coming to the media’s attention again wasn’t something she wanted.

None of them did.

And so, they introduced her as ‘partner’ and she just had to accept it if she wanted to maintain their under-the-radar relationship. In turn, this meant enduring women purposely misinterpreting the label and ignoring the obvious intimacy between Sascha and the man she was with.

Watching Jennifer fawn over Kurt swiftly grew tedious. She kept putting her hand on his knee and Kurt kept reaching for it, pressing it to the white linen tablecloth and patting it in a ‘there, there’ motion. It would have been hysterical if. …

Well, okay, it wasn’t.

Not at all.

She wasn’t sure whether she wanted to bitch slap her, or just blow out a breath and wait for this meal to be over.

It didn’t help that Matthew Dreyford, yup, the Dreyford, had taken a liking to her, too.

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