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CHAPTER NINE Unfinished Business

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Lucian Moretti did not like loose ends.

Loose ends created uncertainty. Uncertainty created weakness.

For fifteen years he had built his empire on the opposite principle—control every variable, eliminate every doubt, and never allow emotion to interfere with evidence.

It was a system that had never failed him.

Until now.

The summit ballroom buzzed with conversation behind him, but Lucian barely heard it as he stepped into a quiet corridor outside the main hall. The hum of voices faded, replaced
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