Chapter 4
Lucian rested an elbow on his desk in his office at A Time for Peace, the Gray family benevolence organization that Lucian had started after law school, and he watched it snow. The narrow windows overlooked a side street, cars covered in snow piles a foot deep lining the road. The slush on the walk was smog-soot dirty, and he idly counted the heads in a cluster of smokers standing near the rear entrance of an office building next door. He thought about the view of the city he had in his penthouse office of Gray Tower, how the skyline and the harbor shrouded in low clouds would be clearly visible out of the two walls of floor-to-ceiling glass, but his father was there today. The last thing Lucian needed was an encounter with Hendrick to inspire another panic attack.
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