The Vision She Hid
“Half a billion bucks, huh? Do I get a loyalty card with that?”
He tilted his head, snake-like, not offended—men like Anatole don’t get offended, they file unpleasantries away for later.
“You think yourself clever, rabbit,” he murmured. “But your kind of clever doesn’t bring back a dead mother. Your kind of clever doesn’t build a timeless empire, it doesn’t even stop the governments of Europe from deciding on a whim who eats and who starves. But bloodlines do, silly, especially now days. Especially genetically modified like yours. Inheritance also does, sometimes, if comes with brain.”
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