Chapter 112

“Nigel was a good man. He felt things more deeply than many assumed.” Mother held up the letter. “May I show this to Gregor?”

“Of course.”

Gregor gave her a look so filled with love my heart turned over. He took the letter and read it

“I hate to say this, Quinn,” Mark said as he raised his glass of soda to his lips, “but you didn’t luck out in the grandfather department. One started a whole new family when he should have kept his dick tucked in his trousers and the other cut off his son at the knees. And Portia, I’m not even going to apologize this time.”

“It isn’t necessary, Mark. The one intriguing thing was that Algernon Mann put a stipulation in his will that the manor was not to be disposed of in any manner whatsoever. If Addison no longer wanted it, it and its contents were to be donated to the Animal Welfare League of Arlington.’’