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Chapter 142: Faye POV

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Lucien called at two in the afternoon, Vienna time. I answered while standing at the south wall, where I had remained since Iris's post lunch nap. The January air was cold enough to sting, the territory stretched before me, the compound behind me. Ever since Lucien had left seven hours earlier, I had been orienting myself against the familiar ground.

He told me about Hannelore, the fourteen parallel branches, the succession architecture, and the woman at the center of it all.

Ninety one years o
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