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“I’m afraid Sarah prefers the Four Seasons.”
“Please tell me she’s not coming with us.”
“I need someone to keep an eye on you when I’m not around.”
Magdalena reserved her usual suite at the Pierre and with a childlike frown returned to her chaise longue next to the pool. Her wounds, thought Gabriel, were definitely self-inflicted. Still, she wasby no means beyond repair. After all, if a former contract killer like Christopher Keller was salvageable, then surely Magdalena was as well.
For the moment, she was merely a means to an end. All Gabriel required now was a reporter to turn her remarkable story into a weapon that would reduce Masterpiece Art Ventures to rubble. A reporter who was familiar with the worlds of finance and art. Perhaps one who had investigated Masterpiece in the past.
Only a single candidate fit the profile. Fortunately, the number for her cell phone was in Phillip Somerset’s contacts. Gabriel dialed it and introduced himself. Not with a work name, or one he plucked from thin air, but his real name.
“Yeah, right,” she said, and hung up the phone.
