It may not work at all.

And you will have to do it without any guarantee of the reward, which I suspect is the part you will find hardest, because you have never in your life done anything without knowing the return in advance.”

Chapter 10 — Sir

Just then the bedroom door opened and Hugo came out with a glass of water.

He crossed the room in silence and set it on the table in front of me.

I looked up at my son, my heart seizing, my lips trembling with the need to say something enormous.