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2026-11-10 22:00:00Kerr Capital had its offices on the thirty-eighth floor of a glass tower on Park Avenue, and at 8:30 on Wednesday morning the receptionist told me Mr. Kerr was in a meeting.
"Tell him Leah Ashcombe is in his lobby," I said. "And that she's sitting down, because she's twenty-eight weeks pregnant and the chairs look comfortable."
She looked at my coat. Then she picked up the phone.
Grant had wanted to come. We'd argued about it in the parking lot in Stamford, beside his car
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