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Chapter 33: Aldric

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last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-03-03 17:31:09

Roman called the meeting for seven in the morning.

Hartwell, Garrett, and Lars were already in the conference room when he arrived. Coffee on the table. Documents spread in the order they had been reviewed. The specific stillness of three people who had all looked at the same information and were waiting to find out what he planned to do about it.

Roman sat down. "Talk me through it."

Lars went first. He walked the ownership trace in the order it had been uncovered. Three shell companies, four
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