The Game Room

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Constantine makes a toast and everyone tucks into their food. It's absolutely mouth watering and I'm so busy eating that I'm not really listening to any of the surrounding conversations. Cass is speaking to a cousin on the other side of him and no one is trying to talk to me, which I appreciate. I hate having a shallow conversation with a person I'm never going to see again. I do, however, catch snippets of conversations. On more than one occasion, I hear people alluding to the family business and upcoming meetings and it makes me curious what the business is. I won't ask Cass now, but I really should have googled this before I came here. There is one conversation I catch a wisp of that I make an effort to hear. I first notice it when Allegra asks in a sickly sweet tone, "What's wrong,

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