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Chapter Three: " The Humiliation"
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2026-04-22 06:00:39
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Killian's words followed me all the way home and refused to leave.Ask me again after Kade takes you out tomorrow.I turned it over so many times that night I barely slept, and by the time Friday evening rolled around I still hadn't decided what I was supposed to be looking for.Kade texted me an address instead of a restaurant name, which should have been my first warning. I typed it into my phone expecting some exclusive members-only club, the kind of place Killian favored, and instead found myself parking on a quiet side street in a part of the city I hadn't visited since law school.When I arrived, it wasn't a rooftop or a private dining room. It was a bookstore, closed for the evening, warm yellow light spilling from the windows onto the empty sidewalk. A hand-lettered sign in the window read CLOSED FOR A PRIVATE EVENT, and for a moment I stood on the sidewalk just looking at it, trying to reconcile this quiet, unassuming storefront with the man who owned half of a two billion do
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