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La Couronne

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Chapter 9

Friday evening arrived with a quiet, dangerous kind of electricity.

La Couronne was the city’s most significant restaurant, which was entirely different from being its most fashionable. It was a dimly lit, velvet-draped sanctuary where the city’s true power brokers did their actual business.

It was the place where billion-dollar decisions were casually finalized between the soup course and the dessert wine, far away from the prying eyes of corporate boardrooms.

Zara knew this intimate
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