**VICTOR KADE POV**The call came in at six in the morning, which should have told me immediately that whatever it carried wasn't going to improve my mood."Mr. Kade, we need to talk about the timeline," said a voice I recognized but had never bothered to learn the actual name of, one of three men I'd engaged through an intermediary eight months ago to apply the kind of pressure polite conversation never quite manages on its own."There is no timeline anymore," I said, already irritated at having to explain this before my coffee had finished brewing. "The matter's been resolved. I've reached an agreement with Montgomery directly.""That's not really how this works, Mr. Kade." Something in his tone had shifted since our last conversation, a casualness that hadn't been there before, the particular confidence of a man who no longer considered himself an employee taking instruction. "We've got our own arrangement with the people financing this operation. Your grudge was useful to get thin
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