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CHAPTER 70

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The drive back to the Devereaux complex was silent.

Not the familiar, companionable silence Michael was used to after long operations or late diplomatic functions. The kind punctuated by shared exhaustion, muted humor, or the quiet satisfaction of having survived another evening intact.

Tonight, the silence was deliberate and self-imposed. Dense with everything he had chosen not to say.

The car he was in, moved smoothly through the city, tires whispering against asphalt as private roads peeled
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