Adrian Cor
The dinner was at a restaurant near the old port that Adrian Cor had chosen, which told her something about him. Not the obvious choice, not the most visible place in the city, but a small room above a fish market that smelled of the sea and had four tables and a proprietor who knew Adrian by name and brought wine without being asked. A man who chose rooms like this was a man who valued the conversation over the setting. She filed that and sat across from him with Damian beside her and watched the two men assess each other with the particular attention of people who had both spent their professional lives reading rooms and were now reading each other. The assessment took about three minutes. She watched it happen and did not interrupt it. Then Adrian picked up his wine and said, "The Re
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