Chapter 9 A Careful Lie
POV: Imogen
"Should it?" hung in the air a beat too long before I softened it with a small laugh, the kind meant to sound like nerves rather than calculation. "Sorry. That came out sharper than I meant. I only meant, no. It doesn't mean anything to me. Why would it?"
Graham watched me for a moment...
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Chapters
1. Chapter 1 The Last Clean Job
2. Chapter 2 A Name That Isn't Mine
3. Chapter 3 The Bookbinder's Warning
4. Chapter 4 Celeste Duquesne
5. Chapter 5 The Man Hunting Her Name
6. Chapter 6 Too Clean to Be True
7. Chapter 7 Hired to Hunt Herself
8. Chapter 8 Behind the Locked Door
9. Chapter 9 A Careful Lie
10. Chapter 10 Rosalind's Watchful Eye
11. Chapter 11 Too Close for Comfort
12. Chapter 12 Veil Week Deepens
13. Chapter 13 The Third Headline
14. Chapter 14 Bait
15. Chapter 15 Julian
16. Chapter 16 Another Lie to Keep
17. Chapter 17 The Client Behind the Client
18. Chapter 18 Used
19. Chapter 19 Cracks in the Mask
20. Chapter 20 What Fenwick Dynamics Really Hunts
21. Chapter 21 Smoke and No Fire
22. Chapter 22 A Message in the Crowd
23. Chapter 23 The Panel Near the Vault
24. Chapter 24 Otto's Fear
25. Chapter 25 Walking Toward Him
26. Chapter 26 Ten Years Later
27. Chapter 27 The Weight of Yes
28. Chapter 28 A Gap That Won't Close
29. Chapter 29 Cornered
30. Chapter 30 Working Late
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