“Dance with me and I will heal your leg,” said the maid’s daughter, and what happened changed the millionaire’s life forever.

of a second. The physics of two objects at speed.

The details were in the newspapers for three days and then replaced by other details. Lucas spent six weeks in hospital and then four months in a rehabilitation centre and then returned to his apartment on the twenty-second floor — the one with the floor-to-ceiling windows and the view he had chosen continue reading …