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Chapter 45: Corporate Family Feud

Author: Toby brown
last update publish date: 2026-07-27 08:06:27

The rain had begun as a fine drizzle, slicking the cobblestones of the Place des Terreaux until they reflected the yellow glow of the streetlamps like polished obsidian. By the time Marie’s Mercedes pulled up along the quiet rear alley of the Rue de la République, the drizzle had deepened into a steady, methodical downpour that washed the dusk out of the Lyonnais sky.

​Inside the private salon of L’Olympe—an exclusive, unlabeled club housed in the vaulted stone basement of an eighteenth-century
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