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Chapter 8: The Wait Outside

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Dominic Kane sat in the back of his Bentley, phone pressed to his ear, watching the entrance to St. Mary's Academy. The driver had turned off the engine twenty minutes ago. The street was quiet except for the occasional car passing by.

"You're still there?" His assistant's voice carried surprise through the phone. "Sir, the Singapore call is scheduled for eleven. That's in forty minutes."

"Reschedule it," Dominic said.

"But they've been trying to get this meeting for three weeks."

"Then they ca
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