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"I know you’ve sent Griffin to check on her a time or two"

"He was happy to do so--said he’d already considered it before I asked"

"Then he’s seen sohtens me at times to knowRy and Tory tomorrow--you need to find an excuse to hire both of thelass of wine The day had been an exhausting one; it was very late, I had an appointo over the accounts for all his restaurants and I hadn’t taken tis would be evenYes, I loved hi What would happen?

Did you tell Tory about Teeg?

Yes--he knows to be circu to Ry or Tory that you don’t want overheard Send it to them in mindspeech only They know not to push it, Reah That was fine for him to say--what if I wanted to throw htrope between Arvil and the ASD was beginning to wear onafraid It interruptedthere to ss over and send me back to sleep Noas expected to produce a valid reason to hire Ry and Tory And then stay away fro

I blew out a breath, realizing as I did so that h upward Resolving to payto bed, I asked Lendill what kind of work I ought to find for Ry and Tory

Security or bodyguarding would be best but do what you can, he replied, cutting off our communication

Haral handed a credit chip to the cocktail waitress "Just make sure you tell her that one of our best custo her to the office at the back of the casino around fourteen bells"

The cocktail waitress nodded She’d taken others to Haral before, in exchange for a fat, non-identifying credit chip Those were difficult to coh money to leave Campiaa and set herself up elsewhere She was still pretty but on Caer

She’d turned her head when so afterward At least he was neat in his work--she’d never found signs of blood or other evidence of any cri on Campiaa all the time The constabulary tended not to hunt for them unless they were paid very well to do so Even then, if Arvil San Gerxon was involved, nothing was ever done He owned the constabulary, after all If the waitress had known then that Haral’s target was one of Arvil’s new heirs, she never would have agreed, nodidn’t coet up in only a click or two He pulled ainst him and was asleep al and dressing in our adjoining bath as quietly as I could Tiptoeing out later, I scrounged soh the staff offered totoI could say about Arvil--he was an early riser

"Here are the accounts, Lord Arvil I’ve fired everyone who had anything to do with the false billings and bad inventories" I pushed the coer in a practicedI’d flagged

"Did you recover any credits on this one?" One of the head cooks I’d fired had found a way to transfer a percentage of all income into his personal account

"I had security help with that one--ent to the bank and took back what he’d funneled into his account--that record will be on the recovery file" I started to rise to show Arvil how to pull it up--he waved ood, Reah," Arvil nodded happily He’d found the other accounts I’d recovered for hi Well, stealing is stealing You ht justify it now and then, but it’s still theft "What did you do with them afterward?"

"Made sure they were sent away and put their fingerprints and eye scans into the database of known criminals who can’t return," I said If Arvil expected me to murder them while they stood in front of me, he needed to find another heir