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"I can’t tell you, Patrick"

His jaw clenched again, and Anne kneas biting his tongue

"If it puts your mind at ease on a personal level, know that the only relationship I am invested in--the only serious one for many years--is ours I don’t want to know details of your ti our separation, and I certainly don’t expect to share mine with you Can you leave it at that?"

She could tell Murphy wanted to ask more, but he simply nodded and took her hand

It wasn’t as if she didn’t know he’d been keeping an eye on her They lived in a s was another o that while Murphyinto her personal life, she expected hi too visible put her at risk

Anne didn’t fear Oleg… exactly But she had a healthy respect for any fire vaed to hold on to the vast Russian territories for over two hundred years She’d sent out a letter last night with one of Terry’s couriers, but she’d decided that until she heard fro about his fa her own principles, but she ran the risk of alienating a powerful vaet back," Murphy said "Talk to Terry and look into the ca from this summit at this point, it will be a miracle"

ANNE tried to watch silently as Terry berated his chief of security, but it was difficult She wondered if Murphy could be as cruel

"Nother mind

"What?"

"Terry and I have very different governing styles I generally find a subtler approach to be er is quite brave to speak up when he’s in this ," Brigid said

Murphy said, "That would also be why Roger is his first lieutenant Do you think Toid?"

Anne nodded behind Murphy’s back Sohts had been epic

"He’s not actually going to cut off part of his arm since Cormac was injured that way, is he?"

Murphy pursed his lips "No Probably not, anyway"

Brigid was looking over the shoulder of a young human with a laptop It was one of Declan’s pair of "hands" that he’d sent fro to the screen "Can you zooet too close See what the screen just did? I just et into their system, and I don’t want to have to start all over Please stand back, Ms Connor"