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Sandrine raised one perfectly groos She wished she’d had it before she’d gone to the expense of sending a retrieval tea up the woman before she succumbed to the poison were minute A wasted effort

“That would have been useful information to have at the start of this plan” She narrowed her eyes at the man Had he held out on her?

He shrugged “I only just found out myself The same time as I found out Miriam suspects our interference She isn’t pleased”

Sandrine waved a disreat Miriam Shepherd”

“Yes, but she’s particularly displeased that we intended to release the video and use it against her”

“She can’t know that for certain”

“She doesn’t need to, does she? Even if she suspects, it will cause problems for us”

Sandrine was unfazed “She can’t touch ainst her She had no fa There were no weak spots for her enemies to exploit

There was a knock at the door “Oui?” Sandrine called

Her personal assistant poked her head in, blushing at the sight of Serge andSandrine wonder if this was yet another woela “What is it?”

She snapped her eyes from the Russian “We have a problem, Madame President”

“What problem?”

“May I?” Her assistant pointed to the screens covering one wall of the suite

Sandrine nodded, and all Angela did was blink and send a mental command to the screens A second later, several news channels filled the wall They were all showing the sae

Sandrine shot to her feet, her hands on the hips of her exclusive designer dress There was nothing she could do but stare in horror at the i behind her ooden desk She knew exactly what she was looking at Ashe’d taken three years earlier when she’d first beco between her, the head of research at one of her co Lee, CEO of Lee-Chan Medical Ju-Long wasn’t in the frale betrayed hi And it was a da