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“A slight setback, is all They’ve turned out to be a bit more troublesome than anticipated”

“How hard is it to knock off two socialites?”

Colton gave hiarette He blew out a long stream of smoke, then said, “Is that what you think they are? Or did you not read the dossier I sent?”

“I did But I thought you were better than that”

“Because I am better than that, their social status is exactly e can’t kill the Especially after that fiasco at the Payton warehouse Like it or not, they’re connected to Oliver If they go, it needs to appear unconnected to the Paytons or you’ll risk scrutiny when you take over the estate”

Deep down, he knew Colton was right It was, after all, why he hired the man To ”

Colton ignored hiarette hanging from his mouth, he keyed the code into the alarhts The twoat the empty space

Colton ripped the cigarette froround “I don’t understand” He pulled out his phone, called one of his men “Where’s the Gray Ghost?”

The voluh for Oren to hear the silence at first before his ht there last night when I set the alarm”

“Well, it’s gone”

It took aWhen he finally caain how everything’s going according to plan?”

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Allegra was ambitious Which is why it troubled her to know that Oliver, someday to be the 8th Viscount Wellswick, cared less about the title and more about the farmers She, on the other hand, had a son to think about, which hat ood that if Oliver continued down the path he was on, her son would inherit everything

Whether there’d be anything left to inherit re over at her ex-husband, Dex Northcott, who sat at the dining table, reading, while he ate the leftovers she’d hoped to save for dinner A slow reader, he turned a page, paused to look over at the television in the front rooame was on The player dribbled the ball past the defense, then kicked it When the goalkeeper caught it, Dex turned back to the book, the fifth journal, which told the story of the Gray Ghost, stolen in 1906, and how an American detective na down a group of notorious bank robbers

She regretted the day she’d ever told him that story, one she’d first read when she was about her son’s age, her early teens, after Oliver had found and read it Back then, she’d thought it was alla bit of fun with their faht out the Gray Ghost, hidden in a barn on the property, that she’d even recalled the story Apparently, she wasn’t the only one