The old money

Pierre's POV

I cannot enter the Royal Hotel. Nobody will allow me to. Everybody knows I did it on purpose so that the people with old money could not get into it, and I called it the Royal Hotel to mock us. Francois is there, and I need to talk to him and find out what he did. I hope I have heard wrong. I also heard that Ivan Petrov has arrived and been invited to the Royal Hotel. Are the youngsters starting a rebellion against the elders of the families? I have called Du Pond and Petrov to come to America immediately. If the rumors are true, we will lose all our companies. We cannot allow Dean Stark to beat us. He had already taken over one of our ally companies and was willing to work with us, but he no longer owned the company.

Stewart Branson was never a clever man when it cam……