Chapter 61

Meanwhile.

Asher was playing snooker with several friends at an exclusive gentlemen’s club.

Alexander chalked his cue, a cigarette dangling from his lips as he teased casually: “Well, well, look who’s graced us with his presence. How is it you have time for us tonight, Asher? Not picking up your precious

Thalia from work?”

Since Thalia had started working and moved into her own apartment, Asher had spent every free

moment at her Tribeca flat.

It had been ages since he’d joined them for a get–together.

After the incident at the engagement ceremony and his hospital stay, Asher and Thalia’s relationship had grown even closer. He made time almost daily to pick her up from work.

Asher’s expression remained neutral as he lined up his shot. “She’s having dinner with colleagues

tonight.”

“Left behind, are we?” Alexander laughed dramatically, his expression deliberately provocative.

His tone was mockingly sympathetic. “Has the mighty Asher Blackwood actually been abandoned by a woman? What sort of colleague dinner could possibly be more important than you?”

Asher’s demeanor cooled slightly. He glanced up at Alexander with a frigid gaze. “Abandoned?”

“Hardly,” Asher’s lips curved into a slight smile. “She’ll be coming home after her gathering, won’t she? What about you? Will you be picking up your girlfriend later?”

The remark wasn’t particularly harmful, but it was deeply insulting.

Everyone knew Alexander was perpetually single. What girlfriend was there to speak of?

He ground his teeth in annoyance, turning to William in an attempt to redirect the conversation. “Would you look at him, mocking a chap like that. William, you’re single too–how can you stand for this?”

William cleared his throat. “Actually, I’m seeing someone at the moment.”

“What?” Alexander’s jaw dropped, his mouth hanging open, his cigarette falling. “What did you just say?

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You’re dating someone?”

William nodded.

“You never mentioned it. Which family is she from? The Kensington set? Or perhaps old Westminster money?” Alexander’s curiosity was piqued.

Kensington family was among London’s elite, while the Westminster lineage had political connections, with their patriarch holding considerable influence second only to the Blackwoods and the

Powells.

genuine member of Britain’s governing class. Alexander

answer, Alexander continued: “I saw that Kensington girl recently, just back from studying abroad. Absolutely stunning. Tell me, is it her?”

his head. “Just an

incredulous, enunciating each

merely glancing briefly at William. “Will your family

his tone matter–of–fact. “It’s just a

clicked his tongue, shaking his head. “Since when did you start playing around with

smiled carelessly, the picture of nonchalance. “What’s there to worry about? A couple of designer handbags and some cash. If I don’t want to see her, how would she even

chin thoughtfully. “That’s

of their social stratum, unless they chose to be accessible, ordinary people would likely never

his gaze passing over William, his tone neutral but pointed. “Playing with someone’s emotions like that–aren’t

with emotions? We’re simply meeting each other’s needs.”

careful. Don’t

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can’t escape.”

lit up with gossip–hungry interest. “What does

us have

cooled. “What for? She’s not part of our circle. There’s

shrugged. “Fair enough.”

nothing

his phone regularly, afraid of missing any

message from Thalia, but he did get a text from his friend Alfred

heard you have trouble in the bedroom department,

brow furrowed, his

stretch his legs. Happening to pass by Asher, his sharp eyes caught the message on Asher’s phone,

extreme. “Is

expression turned frigid, his

his expression

hold it in. “What’s the story then?”

stood up.

back to give William a conspiratorial look: Come on, let’s

better match contemporary British English expressions and incorporate the specific

At the bar.

a few more sips before swaying unsteadily as

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of Blackpinks and Selena Gomez’s “Ice Cream/ her

winced the moment he entered the bar, covering

song

voice and remained stone faced, saying

they approached, they could see that the person passionately performing on

“Go on, fetch your flancée down from there. That’s pure

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