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the New York City Hall lobby. She pulled her black baseball cap lowe
ic wall of sound perfectly drowned out the miserable argted violently a
leather jacket pocket.
r three, her hands shoved deep into her pockets. She had spent years building her underground empire, but there was one thing she couldn't buy-a clean, legal severance from the paras
s doors, tires screech
open and stepped out. His long legs carried him up the concrete steps. He checked the Pat
tween his eyebrows, a
red his assistant, Arthu
"Sir, the overseas merger-" Arthur stopped at t
y Hall alone. He headed straight for the VIP lane, but two people were screaming a
e pivoted and strode into the regular line, his towering height part
ng profusely, slamming his thick fing
ght next to Jaden. The ai
d her head slightly, catching only the sharp silhoue
left his mouth, the screaming woman at the velvet rope completely lost her mind. She grabbed a heavy brass stanchion and hurled it. It smwet, incomprehensible sound, entirely swallow
He pulled the prepared identification documents from his in
isgusting, sixty-year-old proxy her foster parents had hired. Out of the corner of her eye, she caught only the sharp silhouette of a ridiculously expensive custom-tailored suit cuff and caught a whiff of high-end cedar cologne. Wow, she thougscanner, his eyes glued to the frozen computer screen. H
rs. It spit out two crisp sheets of paper bearin
e grabbed the cheap plastic pen chained to the count
toward Jaden. His voice wa
is tone dripping with ice. "Once this is done, you keep your head down
cap. This proxy old Gus hired was i
," Jaden
ross the paper, and signed her name in sharp, aggressi
metal stamp. He slammed it
Binding
he warm papers bac
al combat training took over. In a fraction of a second, she dropped her center of gravity, her core tightening into an immovable wall of muscle. Her heavy combat boots rooted to the tile. Instead of
red at his retreating back, a cold, clinical assessment running throug
icate, crumpled it into her jacket
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