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Prologue

Greed is a strange, strange sin

All you want to do is acquire Acquire y, acquire attention The running mantra is “I want, I want, I want” but that quickly turns to “I need, I need, I need”

Suddenly there just isn’t enough tioal is to acquire and to make sure what you acquire stays acquired Your life depends on it You don’t see truth because the truth is shadowed by enor Your life no longer belongs to you, but you are blind to it all because those around you are seeking the same

So you shuffle along at an impossible rate, and you pass the real world around you

But what you’ll coh

It’s sih

Chapter One

“It’s confirreen won’t approve the acquisition You knohat to do,” my snake of a father told me, not two steps into his front door

“I just got off a seven-hour flight You can’t let me settle in? Possibly say hello?”

He stood, watching ht tick in his square jaw He tucked his hands into his Italian silk pants His six-foot frame followed the steps up to the foyer and stopped a few inches away froh I fell an inch shorter, he no longer intimidated me I knew if I had to, I could kick his ass

“Hello, Spencer,” he said, a serpent’s s flat “Get to work I don’t pay you to sit around I don’t care if it is your Christmas break”

We stayed where ere, each waiting on the other to back down The tension was palpable In the end, his face relaxed and he began to chuckle, stepping aside and s and headed forhim

When I got to the bottos on the second to last step, intending to pick the the feel of , and started for the kitchen

“Where the hell do you think you’re going?” he asked, still standing in the foyer, watching my every move