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to guess that the couple were an English lord and his Chinese wife?”<br />

Axel smiled. “Nothing escapes you, does it? I haven’t attempted anything on this scale<br />

before in Asia, and I do believe I’m going to be calling on you for some help.”<br />

“Congratulations, Axel. It would be a pleasure,” Oliver managed to utter as he felt like<br />

he was going to throw up.<br />

“Now, what can I do for you and Mrs. Bing?”<br />

Oliver watched Kitty fling her cell phone off the balcony into the canal far below. “Oh<br />

we were just in the neighborhood. I’m about to take her to meet Dries at Het Modepaleis,<br />

so I figured we should stop by.”<br />

···<br />

“He said Colette was a new woman. That she had transformed her life and he was proud<br />

of her for wanting to do something good in the world. That’s why she needed a proper<br />

house in Singapore. How gullible can you be?” Kitty cried.<br />

“Yes, let it out. Let it all out,” a soothing voice above her said.<br />

“He said that Colette had made a secret trip to see him in Shanghai. She had prostrated<br />

herself at his feet and begged for his forgiveness. Can you fucking believe it?” Kitty was<br />

lying on the massage table, her head in the face cradle, as her massage therapist Elenya<br />

placed a row of hot stones along her spine.<br />

“Good, good. As I place this stone on your lower back, I want you to really feel it burn<br />

into your second chakra, and I want you to go deeper into your anger and release it,”<br />

Elenya encouraged.<br />

“He said, ‘Do not make me choose between you and my daughter, because you will lose.<br />

I only have one daughter, and I can always get another wife.’ I hate him I hate him I hate<br />

him!” Kitty screamed, tears flowing freely and dripping on the tatami-matted floor.<br />

Suddenly the floor trembled violently, and a couple of the stones rolled off her back<br />

onto the side of the table. Oliver, sitting in an armchair next to the massage table, pulled<br />

his seat belt tighter.<br />

“That wasn’t turbulence, Kitty. That was your anger releasing into the universe. How<br />

does it feel?” Elenya asked, as she began to rub Kitty’s feet with a steaming hot towel.<br />

“It feels fucking great! I want to tell the pilots to steer this plane and crash it right into<br />

his fucking face!” Kitty screamed again, before breaking into loud heaving sobs.<br />

Oliver sighed as he looked out the window of the spa on the second floor of Kitty’s<br />

Boeing 747-81 VIP. They were over the English Channel now, and soon they would be<br />

landing in London. “I don’t know if a quick revenge is the answer, Kitty. I think you need<br />

to be playing a long game here. Look at the life Jack has given you. You’ve got three<br />

airplanes at your disposal, wonderful Elenya here to give you hot-stone massage<br />

treatments when you need it most, and all your other beautiful homes around the world.<br />

And let’s not forget about Harvard. You’ve given Jack a son, and as he grows up, he will<br />

begin to eclipse Colette in importance. Kitty, do you know the story of the Empress

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