The EmbraceBella's POVThe charity gala was not my idea of how to spend an evening when a man named Marcus Cole had gone dark somewhere in the city and a second leak inside Patricia's operation was still unidentified.But Elena had pointed out, correctly and without softening it, that cancelling my attendance at an event I had publicly committed to would be read as weakness by everyone who mattered and as fear by everyone who didn't so I went in a deep green gown that cost enough to make a statement and heels that made me three inches taller than I needed to be. I went and I smiled and I worked the room the way I always did, moving from conversation to conversation with the ease of someone who had been doing this since London and had never once let it show that any of it cost her anything.Elena stayed close as the two security people Carter had arranged stayed at the perimeter of the room, visible enough to be present and careful enough not to be obvious.I was in the middle of a co
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