It took the group another five minutes to actually reach the main door to the Lodge where a man stood waiting for them.“Afternoon Tony, what have yo... got here?” asked Paul Smythe the estate warden.“Afternoon Mr Smythe, they’re a bunch of school teachers who believe that you’re expecting them.”“Mr Smythe, I’m Janine Roberts,” she said stepping forward and holding out her hand, “I hope you are expecting us.”“I am,” said the man shaking the woman’s hand, “though nobody actually said when you’d be. This body might drop dead if that happens. Eviemight be left alone against my enemies." Grim," he muttered."Brandon -- if Evie is left with no one -- would you be able to doanything for her?"I couldn't read the expression behind that facemask of his. "I couldsend her to college."I closed my eyes, knowing he was right. How could a stranger help Evieby protecting her from rogue ultras and helping her deal with the lossof her mother and brother? As far as anyone was aware, the billionaireBrandon. "Oh we're not thinking about it, we're doing it. Tony and Dad are already looking for property." Sounds like quite the project," Mrs. Porter said."Yeah, it is. Actually that's two he's working on. Remember the awards dinner? He's already got the foundations poured on our new building for the band and the charity."Mr. Porter chuckled. "Well you did tell us that he could handle those people." More like they. If Tony can't bulldoze them into something Rebecca just bats her eyelashes at them," Tina. I told you lightly about how I used to get teased at school. It went on the whole way through prep school and I hated it. I made friends with no one and had no sporting ability to turn things in my favour. It was a horrible five years. I pleaded with my parents to take me away but they said that with my father forever on the move with the army my education would suffer from lack of stability. The trouble was that I wasn't in a position to argue that misery was doing just that because I had.