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“No one said you had to give it to him in one piece”

“Have you taken leave of your senses?” Oren replied, wondering if he should rethink his dismissal of Colton as the mastermind behind the theft of the stolen Ghost “Only an idiot would purposefully ruin a car worth tens of millions of dollars”

“It’s not like you can sell it on the open market”

“Maybe not, but there are plenty of buyers who’d make a private sale for their own collection just to say they have it Isn’t that how you found the auction for this Ghost in Italy?”

Colton arded him with those dead brown eyes of his

Thethe Gray Ghost is not an option I intend to recover it Period” Oren leaned back in his chair, taking the os I’d prefer they were dead How do you plan on taking care of it?”

“As I said before, killing the unwanted attention There’s a far better way to keep them out of your affairs, and later—when they end up dead—anyone who hears what happened will nod in understanding at hoo, young, once-wealthy socialites took their own lives In fact, I’ve already started i it”

“I’”

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JOURNAL OF JONATHON PAYTON, 5TH VISCOUNT WELLSWICK

1906

I still held out hope that et past Hoould I explain Isaac Bell’s presence in the headinald see him

I knew Ithere, ue cleaved to the top of ie’s face, I was vaguely aware of Miss Atwater’s ht the alphabet

It was clear I was smitten

A year ago, ed for a proper introduction to an heiress of his approval, hoping our betrothal would soon follow Suffice it to say that Reginald was nowout that he’d only courted her because of my interest The truth was that I was happy for hiood match