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"I realize that you value your friend," Merlin said to me once the situation had been outlined, "but we cannot allow Mr Vanderive up his clai source for the Spellworks operation, so we erous hands"

"Which is why they grabbed her in the first place," Ethan said "It’s an ironclad case If it weren’t for the frog factor, I bet I could even get a ruling in our favor froical court, she doesn’t stand a chance She panicked, and then she resorted to kidnapping"

"You’re not going to let the with emotion He really must have liked her, I realized Maybe he had finallyfor saving my friend, but I kneell as anyone did as at stake

But then I realized soe" They all turned toblank I tappedwe can exchange"

"But do they care enough about Ari to be willing to exchange her?" Philip asked

"They sprang her from our custody in the first place," I reminded them all, "and it didn’t even seem like Idris knew about it, so his bossesThey ht know and blab about, and if they aren’t willing to free her, you know she’ll be angry enough to talk"

Owen stopped pacing and leaned forward, resting his arood bait to help us catch soher-ups"

I knew exactly where he was going with that "Yeah, Idris cares about her on so him knoe have Ari, and then we can use hiine what Idris could do, and he is their front man in all this If they lost him, they’d at least have to make new ads"

"He is htfully "Wethis endeavor, but if we have Mr Idris, we et information, or we could force theive inforreed that we’ll use Ari as leverage to eventually get Marcia back without Philip having to give up his claim," Ethan said "But we’ll need to find a few more ways to stack the deck in our favor"

"Meeting theht place could help," Owen said "There are some abandoned railway tunnels under Grand Central that should be ideal It’s possible that they have some base of operations near there, so they’ll think it’s their territory, but we have other advantages"

Again, I was sure I knehere he was going Being able to read hi "Oh no," I ht not still be safe"