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Chapter Thirty-Four: What a Man Does When He's Losing

Author: Author Rowan
last update publish date: 2026-04-01 04:33:23

I'm already standing.

"Gareth," I say to Dominic.

He's already moving. He has the particular quality, in moments that require immediate action, of becoming very still on the outside while everything internal accelerates. He looks at Orlan. "Can Hadrian get to Gareth in the hospital?"

"He can get to anyone anywhere," Orlan says. Not boastfully. Just the flat truth of someone who knows what the man is capable of. "Gareth is conscious. If Hadrian reaches him before the session is convened and conv
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