Chapter 121ARIAHe had no reason to recognize me. He had never seen Miss Andy. The wig, the contacts, the foundation, the dress—the entire configuration was different from anything he had seen, and people who had no reason to look for something rarely found it.And yet.He looked at me with the particular quality of expression that I had been seeing on his face for a week—the assessing quality, the running-something quality. Not recognition. Something that lived next to recognition without being it. The thing that happened when a brain registered a pattern it couldn't place.Like a word on the tip of the tongue.I sat down."Miss Andy," Darius said, to the table, "is the personal representative of Adriana Salvadore. She's been managing the preliminary discussions for the Kane Industries partnership.""A pleasure," said someone to my left."Likewise," said someone to my right.Damien said: "Welcome."His voice was ex
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