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"Not yet Look, I need you to find out some information for me"

"Absolutely," she said, and he could hear the smile in her voice His assistants were always chosen for their interest in and ability to find out things they shouldn’t know and get the, was no exception

"I have an address," he said "A house outside Petionville I need you to see ns it" He gave her the address "Also, look up a na I’ve never seen her equal"

"Good Are you bringing her back with you?"

"I will or I’ll die trying"

Calliope laughed "You sound much more like your old self," she said, and he could hear her typing in the background "I’ve missed you Everybody really irlfriends don’t miss you, but everyone else does People think you’re up to so about you and Elle both being gone"

"What’s everyone saying?" he asked, curious despite himself

"Umwell, one rumor I heard is that you and Elle fell in love You stole her from her priest and eloped with her You two are supposedly on an around-the-world honeymoon"

"She would commit ritual suicide in Ti else?"

"So mission, and you’re out to find new Subs and Doms for the club"

"Not true, but much more likely than the first rumor"

"I heard someone say you’d run out of money and that’s why you sold the Cuffs and Le Cirque"

"I have so much money I couldn’t spend it all in ten lifetiht not want to know thisbut there’s this new Dosley demanded

"He works for a new kink club His name is Brad Wolfe"

"I refuse to believe that’s his real name"

"He was at a party ot in trouble with the law and you’re on the run froain, tell him I’e today With pleasure Are you ever co back?"

"I’ll come back as soon as I can I have unfinished business here, however"

"Well, you have the ht?"

"Absolument"

"We need a nehite queen around here now that Elle’s gone"