"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.

knew that after selling the ruby for just 500 million and spending

to squeeze Cindy for five billion when they learned about the ruby falling to the black market, and they needed that much to buy it

own kidnapping to lure Gina to South Morhen, while getting the two billion dollar check

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

there was no guarantee Helen could bring the three billion, so Gina sold out Frank

about him at all anyway, and her family

she told herself even as she called Frank and

Screech-

jammed his foot on the brakes, stopping his Maserati

managing to arrive quickly

around-there was no one in sight ready to ambush them, so the Talnamese must

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