Jonathan Thorne was usually so busy he had no time for celebrity gossip. But this incident involved his friend's sister-in-law, and the whole family was following the story, so he naturally saw it too.
'A stepdaughter, fighting over a boyfriend?'
Such a trashy cliché. Jonathan Thorne glanced at the photos, and his only thought at the time was:
'Another clueless one.'
He'd heard bits and pieces from Kian Jacobs about what happened with Joyce Monroe and her ex-boyfriend. Just how great was this man, to make sisters fight over him? 'She's a musician, she's performed abroad, so she must have seen something of the world. Yet instead of striving for more, she wastes her time on a scumbag…'
'So stupid!'
The next time he heard news of her, it was when Preston Monroe publicly announced that she would be his heir.
