Chapter 44 Buying Time
POV: Imogen
"Absolutely not," Otto said, arms crossed, standing in the middle of his half-packed shop like a man prepared to plant roots through the floorboards if it meant staying.
"You don't have a choice, Otto." I kept my voice steady, though the forging stamp and Julian's note still sat heavy ...
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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
31. Chapter 31 What He Doesn't Show the Board
32. Chapter 32 The Deadline
33. Chapter 33 Working the Angles
34. Chapter 34 What Rosalind Owes
35. Chapter 35 Lockdown
36. Chapter 36 Half-Truths
37. Chapter 37 The Diversion
38. Chapter 38 Sealed In
39. Chapter 39 A Second Traitor
40. Chapter 40 Warning Without a Name
41. Chapter 41 First Real Fight
42. Chapter 42 Alone With It
43. Chapter 43 Otto's Shop, Emptied
44. Chapter 44 Buying Time
45. Chapter 45 A Familiar Shop
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