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Chapter 101. Victor Strikes First

作者: Clare
last update 最終更新日: 2025-09-22 02:12:25

The Moscow summit was a steel and glass citadel of whispered authority. Inside the soaring atrium of the Gorod Stolits Tower, it was a temperature of seventy degrees exact, smog-filtered and with the low, rumbling thrum of global energy politics pumped in. Men and women who controlled pipelines and brokered markets commuted between translation booths and coffeebars, their handshakes firm, their smiles falling short of their eyes. Davidson shoved through the crowd at Joe's right side, a presence now impossible to miss. On his hand, the signet ring was a stone, cold fact. He felt the glances, the tentative double-takes, the calculating stares that rested not on his face, but on his hand. He had spent the morning in back-to-back meetings with Gazprom officials, his Russian impeccable, his grasp of volumetric production allowances perfect. He was playing wonderfully, the model heir.

The ring was doing its job: it was silencing queries about his right to be there by announcing his right to
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