Exposed

THE TOWER, THE HEIRESS OF NOTHING, AND THE MAN WHO PAID FOR IT

Meera read the headline four times before she understood that the heiress of nothing was her.

The piece itself was, technically, accurate. She made herself go through it line by line at her kitchen table at twenty past six with the light not yet up, marking it like a drawing, and she could not find a single sentence that was false.

It said the anonymous backer of Bellweather Tower was Julian Harrow, son of Peter Harrow of the Marchetty Fund. It said Harrow’s investment vehicle had executed a confidentiality agreement naming the project’s lead architect personally in June. It said the architect had made a disclosure to her firm’s ethics committee in October concerning a personal relationship with the investor. It said she had been appointed project lead in February 2023. It said that she had not…