"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.

selling the ruby for just 500 million and spending everything in just a

the Talnamese planned to squeeze Cindy for five billion when they learned about the ruby falling to the black market, and they needed that much to buy it back. And since she did not have the money, she had to stage her own kidnapping to lure Gina to South Morhen, while

three billion either and

the three billion,

anyway, and her family might

what she told herself even as she

Screech—

stopping his Maserati outside one of the abandoned

quickly

one in sight ready to ambush them, so

nodded solemnly at Frank. "My people are coming. They'll hang back and jump in if anything

be allowed to escape," Frank

Ned nodded again. "Understood!"

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