Chapter 132
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He understood now, with his whole body, what he had walked into.

And he understood, with equal completeness, how fortunate he was to be walking out of it with everything intact.

Alex let the silence conclude itself naturally and then he looked toward the front of the hall.

“I think,” he said, and his voice had returned to the easy unhurried register of a man at the end of an evening that had gone more or less as expected, “that it is time for my daughter to show everyone what she prepared.”

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