Chapter 320
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The word hung in the air for exactly the length of time it took the room to understand that Alex had said it, and meant it, and was not going to follow it with anything softer.

"Fortunately," Alex said, and his voice was even and clear and carried without effort to every corner of the private dining room, "I will not be kneeling down."

He looked around the table with the same unhurried, open expression he had maintained all evening, and there was something in it now that had not been quite so v
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