Dark Kingdom by Jagger Cole EPUB & PDF – Details About
- Author: Jagger Cole
- Genre: Billionaire Romance, Romantic Suspense
- Publish Date: December 1, 2022
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Four Years Ago, Ascot, England:
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RAIN and fog shroud the cemetery, as if nature herself has dressed for the
funeral today.
I look down numbly into the open coffin that cradles my father’s body. It’s
dressed in a slate gray suit he never could have afforded when he was alive.
Or at least never would have spent the money on, even if he’d had it.
Words like “alone” and “orphan” thud dully inside my head. First my mother,
when I was four, and now my father, a month after my twentieth birthday.
Her from the blunt violence of gunfire, him from the creeping assassin of
cancer.
The priest finishes his words, and silence falls over the meager crowd of
mourners. It’s just me, the housekeeper of the family and estate my father
worked for Mrs. Dubois, the groundskeeper Mr. Peddleton, and Chris, my
father’s friend and darts partner from down at The Spotted Hen.
A firm hand lands gently on my shoulder.
And my uncle, Jonathan. My father would have been enraged to know his
brother was attending his funeral. But, you know, it is his funeral. Sort of hard to protest the guest list.
I glance down at my watch—the one that Jonathan gifted me last night as we
sat at the bar at The Spotted Hen over scotch. He and my father might not
have spoken in sixteen years. The history between them might be the reason
my father severed all ties with the rest of the Cross family and moved us
away from Manchester for the job here in Ascot working for Jean Margaux.
But Henry Cross was still Jonathan’s brother. And even a man as dangerous,
connected, and powerful as my uncle can still feel grief.
My eyes drop to the watch again before I lift my head a little and turn to peer
through the rain, looking for someone else that I was hoping would be here.
Someone I wish was here by my side right now above anyone else, even
Jonathan. Someone I didn’t ask to be here because, well, who knows why.
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