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penthouse, glinting off the rim of my espresso cup. While my legal team compiled the asset freezes I had

n of Archibald Beaumont, the seventy-year-old tita

ake marched back from The Margin last night," Archibald b

er fresh dark-roast grounds. "He brought a new Omega wit

fore throwing his head back in a roaring

hat's the dumbest trade the Hatfields have made in a century! Half the banks on Wall Street are offering millions jus

black coffee,

e camera with a shrewd glint in his eyes. "Listen, my youngest grandson just graduated top of his class from West Point-a

d, rubbing my temple, "but right now my only interest is rip

for the fiercest litigator in the Union. Even if we have to grind old Cornelius

Island. Even with the Renunciation signed, three of my personal biological sample cases and my private authori

Phantom glided to a stop before the towe

pped in a sable coat, barking orders at four gardeners carrying potted orc

ah folded her arms across her chest and sneere

n't you sign the papers last night, Alyson? What are you doing standing

with a gloved hand, her

p in those dirty border zones. Once you get used to a hundred-year-old Lon

king straight past her toward the security

ce flush purple. She marched across the gravel and pla

n an inch of my nose. "Before you set one foot off this property, you are going to give me the name and

in, her eyes gree

y gala next week. I need ten jars of that balm for the sena

gged at the cor

ter Josephus Bauer of the Tidefaith Medical Order-my mentor-and only three jars existed in the entire world. I

h the way you abuse synthetic youth serums, using hig

n gutter rat!" Ednah trembled with ra

nah's heaving chest with a smug smile. "It's just a ceremonial balm from the Tidefaith Order, i

chest, casting a triu

wo full cases of authentic Tide-Gold Balm straight from the Order's high c

replaced by a wide, fawning gri

ike!" Ednah crowed. "Generous, well-connected, and

currently living in semi-retirement inside my private Upstate laboratory, and the

g women toward the main administrative mansion. At the foot of the marble stai

the upper floors. "The Patriarch is waiting for you in the