"By the way, you have to be careful," Gina warned the Talnamese. "He's a martial artist or something."

It only left the Talnamese laughing.

"Don't worry, we're all martial artists too!"

"Hell, Talc is Ascendant rank!"

"Oh, we're really not worried about some Draconian martial artist. Not many people can best Talc in a fight, save for the Lord of the Southern Woods!"

For some reason, Gina felt a gnawing sense of foreboding as she watched the Talnamese joke among themselves confidently.

"You're so smart, Aunt Gina!" Cindy praised.

"Shut up! It's all your fault!" Gina snapped, and Cindy awkwardly turned away.

play nice, and Cindy knew that after selling the ruby for just 500 million and spending everything in

falling to the black market, and they needed that much to buy it back. And

South Morhen, while getting the two billion

could not afford the remaining three billion either and had to call Helen, staging yet another kidnapping

billion, so Gina sold out Frank as well

him at all anyway, and her family might well have a lot less

what she told herself even as she called Frank and told

Screech-

jammed his foot on the brakes, stopping his Maserati outside one of the abandoned

managing to arrive quickly thanks to the details Gina

one in sight ready to ambush them, so the Talnamese must

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