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Chapter One

Liam

I had told all the jokes

God created the Devil so people wouldn’t bla on God, and the Devil created lawyers so people wouldn’t bla on the Devil

What do you call 10,000 lawyers at the bottoood start

So, it was fair to say that finding myself in need of a laas not the kind of situation I was fond of And yet, stepping into that office changed my whole life

The Howell and Howell law firiven the firlass office buildings for them Instead, the offices were housed in a five-floor, red brick, classic building with a flat roof It was an antique they held onto h the efficacy of their pool of property lawyers There were always land developers trying to knock it down, the building being in a pri, none had yet to succeed

I liked a firuns That hat I needed by my side

I walked towards the late added elevator, leaning onwith the change in weather I usually tried to hidethe extent of my wartiood optics for the founder and president of Black Flag Security to have such an outward shoeakness, never mind the fact that it was literally caused by shrapnel

Ann Howell, one of the partners here, had been really aweso I owned, and happily, ere down to the last of the negotiations and just a few papers for otten Howell and Howell’s name from Carl, one of my buddies frolad that I did

The elevatorsounds as it cranked its way fronored that On the upside, the doors opened at the front desk of Ann’s office Her brother Jim was up here on the top floor too, the corridor behind the desk splitting off in two directions, Ann to the left and Jiht, but it was Ann I was here to see

“Morning, Mr Adaht s behind her shoulder