CHAMPAGNE FOR THE DAMNED {MxM}
Names that connect but don't overlap directly, transactions that move through different channels but always circle back to the same core groups, the same families, the same networks, and somewhere in all of that, there's something bigger, something important enough that people are willing to do this just to get their hands on it.
And me?
I'm part of that.
Not by choice.
But by design.
“That's why you're still breathing,” I murmur under my breath, the realization settling in deeper, heavier, but also… steadier.
One of them looks over at me, growing slightly. “What did you say?”
I lift my head slightly, meeting his gaze, letting a small, almost knowing expression settle on my face. “I said,” I
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