Fourteen
Why Are You Trying to Ruin My Life?
11:32 a.m.
27 December
Waterfront District
During the last two centuries, the Edgeworths have earned a reputation as a sensible family of skilled businesspeople. Since the early 1800s when the family founded their illustrious metals enterprise, they’ve been viewed as a resilient and unflappable lot able to keep a stiff upper lip through mine collapses, reversals of fortune, world wars, and political unrest.
However, on Hugh’s third unscheduled day in San Francisco, his seriously overdue rental car comes to a screeching halt in front of Krista’s Twelve Days of Christmas panoply. He slams the car door, sprints to the side of the large warehouse, and kicks her metal tree sculpture with one of his £1000 Thom Brown wingtips as he yells, “WHY AR
