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Chapter Thirty-OneMarisol didn't answer right away. She sat very still on the wrought iron bench beside Adrian Cole, hands folded tight in her lap, the humid air of the greenhouse suddenly thick with something heavier than tension."I didn't found The Undisclosed," she said finally, voice quieter than Wren had ever heard it. "I've let people believe that for eleven years because the truth was never anyone's business but mine. But if someone's using it as leverage now, I suppose it's time I stopped protecting a dead man's name at my own expense.""A dead man," Alaric repeated carefully."My husband," Marisol said. "Julian Ferreira. He built the club twenty-two years ago, long before I ever had anything to do with it. I met him when I was twenty-six, working as an event coordinator for one of his other properties. I didn't know what The Undisclosed actually was until we'd already been married three years." Her hands tightened in her lap. "He died eleven years ago. A boating accident, o