"By the way, you have to be careful," Gina warned the Talnamese. "He's a martial artist or something."

It only left the Talnamese laughing.

"Don't worry, we're all martial artists too!"

"Hell, Talc is Ascendant rank!"

"Oh, we're really not worried about some Draconian martial artist. Not many people can best Talc in a fight, save for the Lord of the Southern Woods!"

For some reason, Gina felt a gnawing sense of foreboding as she watched the Talnamese joke among themselves confidently.

"You're so smart, Aunt Gina!" Cindy praised.

"Shut up! It's all your fault!" Gina snapped, and Cindy awkwardly turned away.

was not about to play nice, and Cindy knew that after selling the ruby for just 500 million and spending everything

back. And since she did not have the money, she had to

Gina could not afford the remaining three billion either and had to call Helen, staging yet another kidnapping like

billion, so Gina sold

and her family might well have a lot less problems if

as she

Screech—

jammed his foot on the brakes, stopping his Maserati outside one of

Ned alighted, managing to arrive quickly thanks to the

in sight ready to ambush

solemnly at Frank. "My people are coming. They'll hang back and

Frank

Ned nodded again. "Understood!"

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