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Leonardo's younger brother arrived from London on a Tuesday in April. Camila knew about Tomás Vasconcelos in the general way she knew about most of the family — through Bianca's intelligence, through Rafael's carefully chosen mentions, through the context that accumulated when you were connected to someone who occupied a complex world. He was twenty-eight, four years younger than her and four years younger than the empire expected him to be ready for. He ran a subsidiary of the holding company that handled property development. He'd been in London for two years. He and Leonardo had a relationship that Rafael described, with lawyerly precision, as productive, which Camila understood to mean it required management. He called Leonardo on the Tuesday afternoon, and something about the call —

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