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Chapter 11

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Lake Como in early morning looked like a painting God made when He was showing off—silver water, green mountains, mist curling off the surface like breath. The safe house sat on a private peninsula, hidden behind cypress trees and iron gates, the kind of place where silence wasn't empty but full, weighted with the scent of jasmine and old stone and the particular peace that money could buy when money was no longer the point.