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Chapter 42

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RICHARD.

I had been sitting in the smaller meeting room downstairs for almost an hour, listening to people talk without actually hearing a word they said.

The clients across the table were discussing projections, timelines, and market positioning with the kind of enthusiasm rich men usually had when numbers were involved. One of them kept tapping the end of his pen against the glass table while another droned on about long-term expansion opportunities in a voice so dry it could have put an inso
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