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"What do you know about Harold?" Nicholas asked.Nora glanced at him, surprised. It was shocking enough that he had summoned her after keeping her away from his business for so long. Now he was actually asking for her help with something?"Not much," she replied. "A lot of Harold's power relies on the fact that no one really knows anything about him. He's mysterious and unpredictable. That's what makes him more dangerous than any of the other founding fathers.""Well, I'm going to need you to find out everything you can about him," Nicholas said. "You can do that, can't you?"'What a tone,' Nora thought.But she saw this interaction for what it was: a test. Nicholas was testing her loyalty with this task.For a moment, Nora wanted to laugh.Nicholas was very clever for coming up with this. She couldn't deny that. Months of working for him had made it easy for her to predict his thought pattern. Since he suspected that she was affiliated with High Mother's orphanage, he probably also s
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"She's dead," Kabuto said, looking up from High Mother's body."So that woman actually killed herself," Nicholas muttered.All because she didn't want to be defeated by him."So, what are you going to do now?" Kabuto asked. "Getting information from her was unfortunately unsuccessful.""Not entirely," Nicholas replied. "She mentioned someone, didn't she?""Yes," Kabuto said. "Jerome.""Any idea who he is?" Nicholas asked."Nope. Not ringing any bells. But he was her accomplice, from the sound of it," he said."Or her superior," Nicholas mused.There was something about the way she had said it.'You think I'm your enemy? You don't know anything. If you knew what Jerome has in store for you, you'd be freaking terrified!'She had implied that this Jerome was somehow worse than her."Great. Another mystery," Nicholas muttered."By the way, how do you think she found out about your no-killing rule?" Kabuto asked. "Do you think she was spying on you?""Probably," Nicholas replied.He saw th
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High Mother had been certain that she would be prepared, if Nicholas ever got it into his head to attack her. Despite what she had said to Jerome, she wasn't actually so indifferent about the prospect of Nicholas coming to take revenge on her. She had doubled her security, increased the surveillance, and sent out shoot on sight orders to every soul in her house.In the end, it still wasn't enough.If it was, she wouldn't be standing in her room right now, listening to her two closest guards tell her that she had to escape."He has almost taken over the entire mansion," one of them was saying. "He'll be here soon. You have to leave, High Mother. You're not safe here."High Mother gritted her teeth. The last thing she wanted to do was run away from her own house just because of that brat, but she knew she had no choice."Fine," she said. "But I will make him pay for embarrassing me like this."There was a trapdoor hidden at the back of her walk-in closet, which had been designed specifi
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Nicholas's silence had gone on for quite a while, so Kabuto decided to speak."Are you going to do something about it, or what?" he said. "She could be dead before dusk. You just have to say the word.""Why is everything always murder with you?" Nicholas replied, exasperated. "You do know there are other ways to handle a situation, right?""Oh, come on," Kabuto said. "I get that you want to be a good person or whatever, but this woman killed your father. And if you let her get away with it, she'll kill you too. I'm pretty sure she's fair game at this point.""I am not killing anyone, and neither are you," Nicholas snapped.Keeping his cool was hard enough without this man saying such unhelpful things.Clearly, Kabuto couldn't take a hint, because he continued to run his mouth."What, you're not even going to try to avenge your father?" he said. "The patriarch would be very disappointed, you know. If the roles had been reversed, he would have done everything to make her pay for—""Get
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Most people assumed that the reason Nora was one of the best agents High Mother's orphanage had ever produced, was due to her intelligence and combat skills. And while they weren't entirely wrong, nobody else knew about her greatest weapon: her intuition. When her gut told her something, it was never wrong. And right now, her gut was telling her Nicholas was hiding something from her.Something huge.Even worse, it had all begun that day he went to the orphanage.'Did the High Mother say something to him?' she wondered. 'Something about me?'But no, that couldn't be it.While she didn't doubt that High Mother was the type to do such a thing, even out of spite, she didn't think that Nicholas would continue to let her hang around if he knew with certainty that she wasn't truly on his side. Which had to mean that he was suspecting her. Somehow, he had found out about her ties to the orphanage, and the trust he had for her had weakened.Nora knew that she couldn't have that. This whole mi
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Nicholas froze, staring at the picture.He wanted to tell himself that it wasn't her. That it couldn't possibly be her. It had to be someone else. Some other girl who looked a lot like her. Maybe even a relative.What did it matter if her name— Nora Ann— was right there next to the picture?People looked like other people all the time, after all, and even shared the same name. Nora and Ann were pretty common names. Anybody could have them.Distantly, Nicholas knew that he sounded delusional. He just couldn't accept that this was Nora. That Nora had been raised at this orphanage. Because if he did, then he'd also be forced to entertain the possibility that she wasn't who he thought she was."Looks like your loyal guard dog isn't so loyal after all," Kabuto remarked, peering over his shoulder at the book."And what are you suggesting?" Nicholas snapped, whirling on him. "That she's a double agent? That she's only been pretending to be on my side this whole time?""Whoa," Kabuto said, pu
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