Margaret listened to the whole of it without interrupting, her hands folded tightly in her lap, and when Chloe finally finished, she sat for a long moment simply absorbing the weight of it."The quiet one," she repeated slowly. "I've never heard that phrase used in connection with my family. Not from my father, not from Edward, not from anyone in our circle, in all the years I've spent listening to the careful, coded way powerful men discuss each other.""Does that mean it isn't connected to your family at all?""It could mean that. It could also mean whoever he is, he's considerably more careful than my father or brother ever managed to be, careful enough that even I, raised inside that world, never once heard him named." Margaret's expression had turned thoughtful, methodical, the same careful intelligence Chloe had come to rely on so often these past months. "I'd rather not guess further than that, honestly. Guessing, in matters like this, has a way of shaping what we eventually fi
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