Nic, obviously, given the acrimony between himself and Vito Viscari over Falcone’s short-lived corporate raid last year, was not on the extensive and exclusive guest list, but that did not trouble him. He merely wanted to evaluate Lorna Linhurst’s horticultural design skills with a possible view to using them on his own hotels—as he had already intimated to her.
What he had not yet intimated to her was the fact that he was considering taking a more than professional interest in her.
He shifted restlessly, t