"My way means you tell me everything," Leo said. "Not the parts you think I can handle."Kade studied him, jaw set the same way Ivy's had been the night she'd refused to leave his study. Stubbornness ran in that family."Sit down," Kade said. "All three of us. We're doing this properly or not at all."They sat around the kitchen island, Leo's bandaged arm resting carefully on the counter, Ivy between them like a buffer neither man particularly wanted but both needed."A press conference gets me shot before I finish a sentence," Kade said. "Reporters, cameras, no control over the room. That's not confession, that's suicide with an audience. Silas asked for public. He didn't define it as press.""Then what does satisfy him," Leo asked."A sit-down. The kind my father's world actually recognizes as binding." Kade laid it out slowly, working through it as he spoke, the shape of it clarifying in real time. "Every allied family sends a representative to witness major disputes resolved betwe
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