Julian Vance knew better than to believe in fairy tales. Since joining the Milice at 83 Avenue Foch, he had realized that Arthur de Molay was an old fox who trusted no one—not even his own shadow. Everyone was on a list, cataloged by their degree of suspicion.
He glanced at his wife, Adelaide, sitting like a statue beside him. He finally understood why she had agreed to the marriage. Even her younger sister, Elodie, looked down on him as a "leech." With their parents dead, the old family contract should have been a relic of the past. Julian was a scholar, a man of books, while Adelaide was the Director’s niece and the rising star of Signals & Cryptography.
The marriage was a fortress. It provided Adelaide with a safer cover and dispelled Arthur’s concerns about her being a "lone wolf." T
