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Chapter 61- THERES always another way
Author: D.twister
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The restaurant Claire chose for their meeting was neutral ground in the way that Switzerland claimed neutrality while banking Nazi gold.

Le Cirque occupied prime real estate in Midtown, the kind of establishment where Manhattan's elite conducted business over meals that cost more than most people's weekly salary.

Damon arrived thirty minutes early with Mei Lin, securing a private dining room that had been swept three times for surveillance equipment and twice for supernatural artifacts that might trigger birthmark activation.

The security was probably overkill, but ten years of protecting Elena had taught him that paranoia was just pattern recognition with better reflexes.

"She's here." Mei Lin's voice carried through his earpiece as Claire's hired car pulled up to the restaurant's valet stand. "Isabella with her. Both wearing casual clothes, no visible weapons, no obvious backup."

Through the private dining room's one-way glass, Damon watched Claire emerge from the vehicle looking
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