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an older man with eyes that had se

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mplete silence, his han

didn't offer pity.

w rumble. "You are the sharpest asset I have ever witnesse

in the icy wall

to hear that. "I feel like I've fail

his hea

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of his wings. You should know," he leaned forward slightly, "the other Fa

statement

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n. "I will advise my Don that backing y

onor. My only condition is this: the interests of

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pened, a man in full ta

n, with an aura of absolute autho

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color of cold

e said, his vo

. The voice that had been the only p

he Commission summit," he stated, not as a

orking toge

before I could stop them. "Thank you. For you

f, dismissive wave of his

n the ground floor

l feel the weigh

of cold, brutal authority that had kept