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Who Klaus Became

作者: Nicolet Hale
last update 公開日: 2026-06-25 00:36:22

Klaus became someone nobody in the Greco estate world had anticipated.

Not nobody my mother had said it when I was twelve, apparently. That he was going to be remarkable. But my mother saw things clearly and said them once and let them exist without insisting on being credited for the accuracy later, which was one of the things I loved most about her.

The world my father had built the Greco operation, the foot soldiers, the specific hierarchy of a criminal organisation where position was dete
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